How to read console/user input in PHP?
I think you are looking for the readline function
$number = readline("Enter a number: ");
echo 'You picked the number: '.$number;
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readline.php
If you don't have readline
installed, -or- you're writing a library, you should do this:
if (!function_exists('readline')) {
function readline($question)
{
$fh = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
echo $question;
$userInput = trim(fgets($fh));
fclose($fh);
return $userInput;
}
}
$age = readline('What is your age? ');
echo "You are $age years old.\n";