Re: [PHP-DEV] stdin From: Stig S. Bakken (ssb <email protected>)
Date: 09/15/00

Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> Is there any reason that a direct interface to stdin, stdout and stderr are not
> provided? Why is the "php://stdin" provided instead?

You mean like "gets" instead of "fgets" and so on? PHP was never
designed to do I/O via stdin/stdout/stderr, hence the "add-on feel" of
php://stdin.

 - Stig 

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