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    kermodebear at kermodebear dot org
    20 years ago
    Not calling ncurses_end() can (will) cause issues with terminals. Although registering a shutdown function which includes ncurses_end() may help, sometimes things go awry and you're stuck with a terminal that is acting in strange ways.

    This can be fixed! *NIX systems (FreeBSD, Linux, UNIX, et al.) usually support the 'reset' command which resets the terminal settings and allows you to get things back to normal.
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    Anonymous
    21 years ago
    In the example above, if you run resize from a C shell it will output the sizes in C shell syntax, run resize with -u to force Bourne syntax:
    The $win parameter is just for future compatibility.

    function ncurses_getmaxyx($win, &$y, &$x)
    {
            exec("/usr/X11R6/bin/resize -u", $output);
            $cols = explode("=", $output[0]);
            $rows = explode("=", $output[1]);
            $x = intval($cols[1]);
            $y = intval($rows[1]);
    }
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    krzysztof dot gorzelak at gmail dot com
    19 years ago
    Here is a small example, how to use STDIN to read keys combinations in console.

    $stdin = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
    stream_set_timeout($stdin, 1);
    while (1) {
      $temp="";
        while (1) {
          if(stream_select($read = array($stdin), $write = NULL, $except = NULL, 0))
            $temp .= ord(fgetc($stdin));
          else break;
        }

        // F1 : $temp == 27914949126
        // ALT+F1 : $temp = 2727914949126
        // ....
       
        usleep("50000");
    }
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    kermodebear at kermodebear dot org
    20 years ago
    Here is a function that takes an associative array, presents a menu in a new window, allows the user to make a choice using up and down arrows and the enter key, and returns the value of the menu item.

    Limitations include:
    No way of scrolling a long list, either horiontally or vertically;
    No arguments for placement on screen, although this is easy to add;
    No multiple selection;
    Will produce all kinds of errors and warnings if the terminal is smaller than is necessary to create the window.

    I'm very new at using the ncurses library; Comments and improvements would be greatly appreciated!

    <?php
    /**
    * Create a simple selection menu
    * @param array Associative array; The value will be shown on the menu, while the key will be returned when the associated value is selected.
    * @return mixed
    */
    function ncurses_menu_select( $menu ) {
                $keys = array_keys( $menu );
                $values = array_values( $menu );

                $height = $width = 0;
                $height = count( $menu ) + 2;
            foreach(     $values as $value ) {
                        $width = max( $width, strlen( $value ) + 2 );
            }

                $menu_window = ncurses_newwin( $height, $width, 5, 5 );
                ncurses_wborder( $menu_window, 0,0, 0,0, 0,0, 0,0 );

                $current = 0;
            for(     $a = 0; $a < count( $values ); $a++ ) {
                    if (     $a == $current ) {
                                ncurses_wattron( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1 + $a, 1, $values[ $a ] );
                                ncurses_wattroff( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                    } else {
                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1 + $a, 1, $values[ $a ] );
                    }
            }
                ncurses_wrefresh( $menu_window );

            while( !     in_array( $key = ncurses_getch( $menu_window ), array( 13, 10 ) ) ) {
                    if (     $key == NCURSES_KEY_UP AND $current > 0 ) {
                                $move = -1;
                    } else if (     $key == NCURSES_KEY_DOWN and $current < count( $values ) - 1 ) {
                                $move = 1;
                    } else {
                                $move = 0;
                    }
                        ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1 + $current, 1, $values[ $current ] );
                        $current += $move;
                        ncurses_wattron( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                        ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1 + $current, 1, $values[ $current ] );
                        ncurses_wattroff( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                        ncurses_wrefresh( $menu_window );
            }
                ncurses_delwin( $menu_window );
            return     $keys[ $current ];
    }
    ?>

    Example Use:

    <?php
    // Initialie ncurses
    $ncurse = ncurses_init();
    // A full screen window
    $fullscreen = ncurses_newwin ( 0, 0, 0, 0);
    // Add a pretty border
    ncurses_border(0,0, 0,0, 0,0, 0,0);
    // Draw everything so far
    ncurses_refresh();

    // Set up menu array
    $menu_items = array(
                'one'   => 'Menu Item #1',
                'two'   => 'Menu Item #2',
                'three' => 'Menu Item #3' );
    // Display menu and return selection
    $selection = ncurses_menu_select( $menu_items );

    // Print selection
    ncurses_mvaddstr( 1, 1, 'You selected ' . $menu_items[$selection] . ' with the value ' . $selection );

    // Draw updates
    ncurses_refresh( $fullscreen );
    // End
    ncurses_end();
    ?>
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    Habib Valanejad
    21 years ago
    Here is a function which would do the job for missing
    ncurses_wclrtoeol() function:
    /* wclrtoeol()
    * Erases  the  current line to the right of the cursor
    */
    function wclrtoeol($win)
    {
       # get current position
       ncurses_getyx($win, &$crow, &$ccol);
       # get maximum row and col for this window:
       ncurses_getmaxyx($win, &$max_row, &$max_col);
       for ($col = $ccol; $col < $max_col; $col ++){
          ncurses_wmove($win, $crow, $col);
          ncurses_waddch($win, 32);
       }
    }
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    rainman at darkwired dot org
    21 years ago
    This is not meant as spam to get people to use my client.

    I have been working on a PHP4 IRC client with ncurses interface and I think it is a useful example of how ncurses with php could be used.
    It is GPL licensed so you can just go and take a loot at it.

    It can be found at http://torc.sourceforge.net or http://www.darkwired.org/projects/torc/

    I hope this will help out some of you because php ncurses can be quite difficult I experienced :]

    For any questions about the code you can ofcourse just mail me.
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    Habib Valanejad
    21 years ago
    I had a small problem building php+ncurses support.
    ncurses include files were installed in:
    ncurses_installed_dir/include/ncurses
    This caused problems when building php with ncurse support.
    php was looking for include files in:
    ncurses_installed_dir/include
    However, include files were located in include/ncurses

    I had to make symbolic links of files in ncurses directory so php could see them:
    # cd ncurses_insalled_directory/include
    # ln -s ncurses/* .
    After that it worked.
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    joeldegan AT yahoo.com
    22 years ago
    See the documentation for ncurses_border and ncurses_wrefresh for some more examples of doing windowing and dynamic sizing.. I also posted some information to the zend.com code-gallery for doing ncurses under php.
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    joeldegan AT yahoo.com
    22 years ago
    I noticed a lack of a getxy() function so I wrote one.
    You may need to change the path for your resize cmd.

    <?
    function getxy(){
            $rez = `/usr/X11R6/bin/resize`;
            $rez = explode("\n",$rez);
        while(list(    $key,$val)=each($rez)){
                $a=explode("=",$val);
            if(    trim($a[0])=="COLUMNS"){ $COLUMNS = $a[1]; }
            if(    trim($a[0])=="LINES"){ $LINES = $a[1]; }
        }    //
            $retval[0]=$COLUMNS;
            $retval[1]=$LINES;
       return     $retval;
    }

    print_r(getxy());
    ?>
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    joeldegan AT yahoo.com
    22 years ago
    This is from the examples that come with the latest release.

    From:
    php-4.3.0RC3/ext/ncurses/example1.php

    I found this useful...

    <?php
    $n    =0;
    ncurses_init();
    if(    ncurses_has_colors()){
    ncurses_start_color();
                ncurses_init_pair(1,NCURSES_COLOR_RED,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);
                ncurses_init_pair(2,NCURSES_COLOR_GREEN,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);
                ncurses_init_pair(3,NCURSES_COLOR_YELLOW,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);
                ncurses_init_pair(4,NCURSES_COLOR_BLUE,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);
                ncurses_init_pair(5,NCURSES_COLOR_MAGENTA,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);
                ncurses_init_pair(6,NCURSES_COLOR_CYAN,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);
                ncurses_init_pair(7,NCURSES_COLOR_WHITE,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);
    }
    while(    1){
    for (    $x=0; $x<80; $x++) {
    for (    $y=0; $y<24; $y++) {
          $n++;
          ncurses_move($y,$x);
          ncurses_addch($n+64);
          ncurses_color_set($n%8);
          ncurses_refresh();
      if(    $n>26)$n=0;
    }
    }
    ncurses_getch();
    }
    ?>
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    nweeks at utas dot edu dot au
    22 years ago
    With your CGI version of PHP compiled with ncurses support, console apps are amazingly easy!

    For example:
    whack the following into a file, chmod +x it, and run it.

    #!/usr/local/bin/php -q
    <?php
    ncurses_init    ();
    ncurses_border(25,25,18,18,24,24,23,23); // Do a lovely border
    ncurses_move(1,1); // Start top left(inside border)
    ncurses_addstr("Welcome to NCurses");
    ncurses_addstr(" with PHP!");
    ncurses_refresh(); // Send buffer to screen
    ncurses_end(); // Clean up, and quit
    ?&gt;

    You'll notice the second addstr simply tacks onto the first.
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    g_a at freemail dot deletethispart dot hu
    18 years ago
    To determine screen width and height without any external (OS specific) commands, I use:

    <?php
    ncurses_init    ();
    $fullscreen = ncurses_newwin ( 0, 0, 0, 0);
    ncurses_getmaxyx($fullscreen,&$a,&$b);
    ncurses_end();
    echo     "Width:$b\nHeight:$a\n";
    ?>
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    kermodebear at kermodebear dot org
    20 years ago
    An implementation of a scrolling selection box:

    <?php
    function ncurses_menu_select( $options, $values, $max_height = 7, $max_width = 20, $y = 2, $x = 2 ) {
                // Size inside of borders
                $height = $max_height - 2;
                $width  = $max_width  - 2;

                // Number of options
                $num_options = count( $options );

                // Trim all values to fit
                foreach( $options as $key => $value ) {
                        $options[ $key ] = substr( $value, 0, $width );
            }

                // Create Window
                $menu_window = ncurses_newwin( $max_height, $max_width, $y, $x );
                ncurses_wborder( $menu_window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 );

                // Initialize Window
                $current = 0; // Currently selected
                $position = 1; // Position in list
                $topitem = 0; // Top menu item
                for ( $a = 0; $a < min( $height, $num_options ); $a++ ) {
                    if (     $a == $current ) {
                                ncurses_wattron( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1 + $a, 1, $options[ $a ] );
                                ncurses_wattroff( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                    } else {
                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1 + $a, 1, $options[ $a ] );
                    }
            }
                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1, 0, '*' );
                ncurses_wrefresh( $menu_window );
                // Loop until a selection is made
                while( ! in_array( $key = ncurses_getch( $menu_window ), array( 13, 10 ) ) ) {
                    if (     $key == NCURSES_KEY_UP && $current > 0 ) {
                                $move = -1;
                    } else if (     $key == NCURSES_KEY_DOWN && $current < $num_options - 1 ) {
                                $move = 1;
                    } else {
                            continue;
                    }

                        $current += $move;
                        $position += $move;
                        // If we scroll off the window, redraw items.
                        if ( $position < 1 || $position > $height ) {
                            if (     $position < 1 ) {
                                        $position = 1;
                            } else {
                                        $position = $height;
                            }
                                $topitem += $move;
                            for (     $a = 1; $a <= $height; $a++ ) {
                                        ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, $a, 1, str_repeat( ' ', $width ) );
                                    if (     $a == $position ) {
                                                ncurses_wattron( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, $a, 1, $options[ $topitem + $a - 1 ] );
                                                ncurses_wattroff( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                                    } else {
                                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, $a, 1, $options[ $topitem + $a - 1 ] );
                                    }
                            }
                    } else {     // Just update changed items
                                ncurses_wattron( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, $position, 1, $options[ $current ] );
                                ncurses_wattroff( $menu_window, NCURSES_A_REVERSE );
                                ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, $position - $move, 1, $options[ $current - $move ] );
                    }
                        // Update 'scroll bar dot'
                        ncurses_wborder( $menu_window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 );
                        $dot_position = round ( ( $current / $num_options ) * ( $height - 1 ) );
                        ncurses_mvwaddstr( $menu_window, 1 + $dot_position, 0, '*' );

                        ncurses_wrefresh( $menu_window );
            }
            return     $values[ $current ];
    }

    ?>
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    Habib Valanejad
    20 years ago
    What if you want to draw a new window and after removing it, showing the pervious screen again? Unfortunately, there is no such a thing in php/ncurses as there is in original curses library (touchwin if I'm not mistaken - It has been a long time!).
    However, you can do this by a simple trick! You can
    dump the screen to a temp file and then restore it back
    again!
    Take a look at this function:

    # Function: show_a_win()
    # - Displays a small window and writes something in it.
    # - waits for a key
    # - shows the pervious screen again
    function show_a_win()
    {
       # Dump the current screen into a temp file:
       $tmpfile = tempnam("/tmp", "dump.");
       # Create a new window.
       $newwin = ncurses_newwin(4, 60, 10, 10);
       # Write something and then refresh it
       ncurses_mvwaddstr($newwin, 1, 1, "This is a test.");
       ncurses_wrefresh($newwin);
       # Wait for a key
       ncurses_wgetch($newwin);
       ncurses_delwin($newwin);  /* delete the window */
       /* Restore the screen the same way it was before entering
        * into the function:
        */
       ncurses_scr_restore($tmpfile);
       unlink($tmpfile);   /* Remove temp file */
    }
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    Habib Valanejad
    21 years ago
    For those of you who want to check if <ENTER> key is passed,
    you have to check the key agains both NL and CR keys:

    function get_str()
    {
       for ($str = "";;){
          $key = ncurses_getch();
          switch ($key){
            case 10:   // newline
            case 13:   // Carrige Return
               return($str);
            default:
               $str .= chr($key);
                ncurses_refresh();
          } // switch
       } // for
    } // get_str()

    Hope that would help.
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    joeldegan AT yahoo.com
    22 years ago
    actually *that* example does not work...
    here is one that I took and trimmed down from the ncurses examples.
    I will do some more and post them here..

    <?
    ncurses_init    ();
    ##############################################
    ncurses_noecho();

            $large = ncurses_newwin(20, 60, 2, 10);
            $small = ncurses_newwin(10, 30, 7, 25);
       
            ncurses_refresh();
            ncurses_wrefresh($large);
            ncurses_wrefresh($small);

            ncurses_mvwaddstr($small, 5, 5, "   Test  String   ");
            ncurses_wrefresh($small);
            ncurses_getch();

    ##############################################
    ncurses_end(); // Clean up, and quit
    ?>

    This is from PHP 4.3.0RC0 compiled with the following flags..
    ./configure --prefix=/wwwroot/php --with-config-file-path=/wwwroot/php --with-mysql --enable-pcntl --with-tsrm-pthreads --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --with-curl --enable-bcmath --enable-sigchild --enable-sockets --with-ncurses
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