Comments on: Interactive CLI password prompt in PHP

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:23:48 +0000

This works great. Thanks!

By: irshad_sheikh

irshad_sheikh — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:13:48 +0000

Nice code.

By: Robert K

Robert K — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:53:07 +0000

Not bad at all – i’ve just been using javascript based techniques. This looks very useful also php-gtk looks good also. Thanks!

By: Troels Knak-Nielsen

Troels Knak-Nielsen — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:54:20 +0000

OK, I couldn’t get the ScriptPW trick to work, but I’ve now updated the snippet above to use the basic password-prompt, if the OS is Windows. This should make the function fully portable.

By: Troels Knak-Nielsen

Troels Knak-Nielsen — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:10:26 +0000

@ognjen: Yeah, Wordpress messes peoples comments up. It's rather annoying. I just tested it on Windows and it works. It would be nice to do without the vbs file, but I guess the php-script could just generate it as a temp-file, and delete it afterwards. The InputBox doesn't mask the password, but it seems to be possible to do, using a few more lines of vb-script:


Wscript.Echo(CreateObject("ScriptPW.Password").GetPassword())

By: ognjen

ognjen — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:00:03 +0000

Of course, in example above, vbs script should be in two lines. Or in one:


wscript.echo InputBox("Input password", "", "password here")

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:41:14 +0000

something like this could work at Win. prompt.vbs:


pass = InputBox("Input password", "", "password here")
wscript.echo pass

prompt.php:


echo (exec('cscript //nologo prompt.vbs'));

If promp.vbs and prompt.php are in same folder and php is Path, cmd could be e.g.: D:\>php prompt.php

By: Troels Knak-Nielsen

Troels Knak-Nielsen — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:42:15 +0000

@magnusdopus: Good tip. The only downside is that it adds a pretty heavy dependency if you aren’t already using gtk for anything else. I was thinking that it must be possible to use windows scripting host to pop up a modal box somehow, but I haven’t investigated further.

@Coder Jim: In theory, but Cygwin has some problems with interactive shell features, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t work. Haven’t tried it though.

@Lachlan: readline echoes input to the screen.

By: Lachlan

Lachlan — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:26:45 +0000

How about readline?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readline.php

By: magnusdopus

magnusdopus — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:31:35 +0000

We used php-gtk for this. Works great on windows!