<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >readline</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="GNU Readline" HREF="ref.readline.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="readline_write_history" HREF="function.readline-write-history.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="GNU Recode functions" HREF="ref.recode.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.readline-write-history.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.recode.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.readline" ></A >readline</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN80708" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >readline -- Reads a line</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN80711" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >readline</B > ( [string prompt])<BR ></BR ><P > This function returns a single string from the user. You may specify a string with which to prompt the user. The line returned has the ending newline removed. You must add this line to the history yourself using <A HREF="function.readline-add-history.html" ><B CLASS="function" >readline_add_history()</B ></A >. </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN80721" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >readline()</B ></B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >//get 3 commands from user for ($i=0; $i < 3; $i++) { $line = readline ("Command: "); readline_add_history ($line); } //dump history print_r (readline_list_history()); //dump variables print_r (readline_info());</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.readline-write-history.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.recode.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >readline_write_history</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.readline.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >GNU Recode functions</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >