(PECL expect >= 0.1.0)
expect_popen — Execute command via Bourne shell, and open the PTY stream to the process
$command
) : resourceExecute 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);
?>