If you want to make the terminal beep on a PHP CLI application without needing the ncurses library, use the following code:
<?php
function cli_beep()
{
echo "\x07";
}
?>
ncurses_beep
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5 < 5.3.0, PECL ncurses >= 1.0.0)
ncurses_beep — Producir un beep en la terminal
Descripción
ncurses_beep
( void
) : int
Advertencia
Esta función ha sido declarada EXPERIMENTAL. Su funcionamiento, nombre y la documentación que le acompaña puede cambiar sin previo aviso en futuras versiones de PHP. Utilícela bajo su propia responsabilidad.
ncurses_beep() envía una alerta auditiva (campana), y si no es posible produce un relampagueo en la pantalla.
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User Contributed Notes 2 notes
arplynn at gmail dot com ¶
18 years ago
divinity76 at gmail dot com ¶
5 years ago
arplynn's function has a subtle bug, if it's being called while ob_start()'s output buffering is active, it does not make the system beep, and worse, it may corrupt whatever data is being generated under OB, by inserting an unprintable ascii character in it. use fprintf to STDOUT to bypass OB, eg
<?php
function cli_beep() {
fprintf ( STDOUT, "%s", "\x07" );
}
