Alternative to form for user response?

PHP
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It’s been awhile since I’ve dabbled in PHP.

I want to (a) populate a screen for the user to view, (b) ask the user if she wants to print that screen then (c) ask if the user wants another populated screen. If I could get these responses (b) and (c) without the hassle of forms, I’d use a do … while and be able to retain my local data.

I’ve tried “readline”, but I don’t think it works on Windows [aren’t we surprised?]. The alternative in [http://php.net/manual/en/function.readline.php] (http://php.net/manual/en/function.readline.php) contains this code.

<?php if (PHP_OS == 'WINNT') { echo '$ '; $line = stream_get_line(STDIN, 1024, PHP_EOL); } else { $line = readline('$ '); } ?>

I assume it works, but isn’t there an easier way?

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I see you have got this code from the PHP manual. I’m not sure how much simpler it could be.

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The Symfony console component might have a better api for that.

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Thanks. But Symfony looks to be a more robust solution than this Q&D justifies.

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Yeah. More probably it’s my design that’s lacking. Like I wrote, it’s been awhile. Thanks for your prompt response.

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I was referring to using just the console component to manipulate user input on the command line and possibly manage screens.

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