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Re: Detecting Redirected Output [message #174111 is a reply to message #174109]

Sun, 22 May 2011 03:14

Jerry Stuckle
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On 5/21/2011 9:06 PM, Bob Smith wrote:
> Running under Win7, a script I'm writing needs to vary its behavior
> depending upon whether or not the output from PHP is being redirected.
> That is, I want to know from within the PHP script whether it's called as
>
> php foo.php
>
> or
>
> php foo.php > outfile
>
> None of the Output Control Functions appears to be helpful.
>
> Way back in DOS days, there was an IOCTL call which the program could
> use to distinguish those two cases. Is there anything comparable in PHP?
>

Nope. Not possible in PHP. And it shouldn't be, either. The purpose
of a redirect is to be able to save the output.

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