Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/21/65 11:28

could you imagine that somebody who has never seen your code,
has no idea how it is put together or even what platform it
requires (php4/php5?) might not have clue what your on about?

matt VanDeWalle wrote:
> hello again
> I was writing and rewriting my user function for my chat server trying
> to crush this bug but its beyond me whats going on. basically I have it
> so if a new user comes on, we know that if they type "new" at the prompt
> so it goes to the newuser function, asks for a username, accepts that
> alright, but when I ask for a password(echoed or not), even if i ask for
> anything else, just the second input of the function, it skips right
> threw that, prompts for it but apparently the buffer still has a \n in
> it so it is assuming that is the password and going right onto the 3rd
> signup prompt, i could stick with the default password being a random
> number and avoiding this whole problem, but i actually don't, the buffer
> is still full of whatever, and would ask the 3rd prompt but just drop
> right threw,
>
> I turned on implicit_flush in php.ini, just as a second measure, I call
> ob_implicit_flush() after reading from the socket each time, but the
> '\n' or whatever mysterious character, still seems to be there, also, I
> know too because before i started working on redoing the logon function,
> i would log on and i would automatically have a character sent but i
> didn't type anything so something is really screwy or am I just not
> clearing the buffers the right way?
> oh yes, as you may have assumed from what I wrote, or may not have,
> after the password or otherwise 2nd prompt, things work as expected with
> the other prompts,
> if this helps, I am using php 4.3.10 in command line interface
>

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