PHP: expect:// - Manual

expect:// — Process Interaction Streams

Description

Streams opened via the expect:// wrapper provide access to process's stdin, stdout and stderr via PTY.

Note: This wrapper is not enabled by default
In order to use the expect:// wrapper, the » Expect extension available from » PECL must be installed.

expect:// (PECL)

Options

**Wrapper Summary**
Attribute	Supported
Restricted by allow_url_fopen	No
Allows Reading	Yes
Allows Writing	Yes
Allows Appending	Yes
Allows Simultaneous Reading and Writing	No
Supports stat()	No
Supports unlink()	No
Supports rename()	No
Supports mkdir()	No
Supports rmdir()	No