(PECL expect >= 0.1.0)
expect_popen — Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to the process
$command
)Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to the process.
command
Command to execute.
Returns an open PTY stream to the processes stdio, stdout, and stderr.
On failure this function returns FALSE.
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);
?>