user input from keyboard in php at run time

[ankit_21]

this is my code
$line = trim(fgets(STDIN));
echo $line;
what browser shows:
Warning: fgets() expects parameter 1 to be resource, string given in /storage/emulated/0/coding/mobilephp

[ryantroop]

try stream_get_line instead.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16560755/fgetsstdin-automatic-line-break

[rubberman]

As mentioned in the article posted by @ryantroop, fgets(stream) will also return the newline. If you don't want it, you will either have to trim it or use stream_get_line(). FWIW, you can't use STDIN if your script is being read from stdin... :-) Read this: http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.io-streams.php