<!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>Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to the process</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.expect-expectl.html">expect_expectl</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="book.libevent.html">Libevent</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.expect.html">Expect Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.expect-popen" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <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> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.expect-popen-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>expect_popen</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$command</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to the process. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.expect-popen-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">command</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Command to execute. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.expect-popen-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns an open PTY stream to the processes <em>stdio</em>, <em>stdout</em>, and <em>stderr</em>. </p> <p class="para"> On failure this function returns <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-function.expect-popen-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-3639"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>expect_popen()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Login to the PHP.net CVS repository:<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$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> </span> </code></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.expect-popen-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.popen.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">popen()</a> - Opens process file pointer</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.expect-expectl.html">expect_expectl</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="book.libevent.html">Libevent</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.expect.html">Expect Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>