expect_popen

Description

Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to the process.

Parameters

Return Values

Returns an open PTY stream to the process'es stdio, stdout and stderr.

On failure this function returns FALSE.

Examples

Example 1. expect_popen() example <?php // Login to the PHP.net CVS repository: $stream = expect_popen ("cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.php.net:/repository login"); sleep (3); fwrite ($stream, "phpfi\n"); fclose ($stream); ?>

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