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<h1 class="refname">expect_popen</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL expect >= 0.1.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">expect_popen</span> — <span class="dc-title">Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to
the process</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>expect_popen</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$command</code></span>
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Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to the process.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">command</code></em></span>
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<p class="para">
Command to execute.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns an open PTY stream to the processes <em>stdio</em>,
<em>stdout</em>, and <em>stderr</em>.
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On failure this function returns <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>.
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>expect_popen()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Login to the PHP.net CVS repository:<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$stream </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">expect_popen </span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.php.net:/repository login"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">sleep </span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">3</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">fwrite </span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$stream</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"phpfi\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">fclose </span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$stream</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.popen.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">popen()</a> - Opens process file pointer</span></li>
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