Quick Tip #1: Please press a key (CLI)
I saw a question by someone on some site that was asking about running a PHP CLI script until the user pressed a key and then quitting (finishing up, not just an exit).
This should be very simple using STDIN as a file stream.
<?php $cli = fopen('php://stdin', 'r'); function prompt($msg, $cli) { echo $msg . "\n"; @ob_flush(); // YOUR CODE HERE fgets($cli); // <--- must be last } $key = prompt('Please press a key', $cli); @fclose($cli);
This essentially runs the ‘prompt’ function once, and executes the code inside of it until it hits the last line. The ‘fgets($cli)’ will cause a pause in script execution as it just starts a read on the STDIN.