<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Requirements</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="readline.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="readline.installation.html">Installation</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="readline.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="readline.requirements" class="section"> <h2 class="title">Requirements</h2> <p class="para"> To use the readline functions, you need to install libreadline. You can find libreadline on the home page of the GNU Readline project, at <a href="http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html" class="link external">» http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html</a>. It's maintained by Chet Ramey, who's also the author of Bash. </p> <p class="para"> You can also use these functions with the libedit library, a non-GPL replacement for the readline library. The libedit library is BSD licensed and available for download from <a href="http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/" class="link external">» http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/</a>. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="readline.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="readline.installation.html">Installation</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="readline.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>