ID: 31516 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: csaba at alum dot mit dot edu -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Windows PHP Version: 5.0.3 New Comment:
Just send the appropriate escape sequence, afaik this should work: echo chr(27), "[2H"; Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-12 14:26:03] csaba at alum dot mit dot edu Description: ------------ >From a command line php.exe invoked from a cmd prompt under Win XP Pro, I'd like to be able to blank the screen and/or determine the screen height. Motivation: I have a program that takes several hours to run and it shows several lines of progress statistics, which are periodically updated. I'd like to keep this presentation professional. I could simulate what I'm asking by interspersing 1000 "\n" whenever I'm printing an updated set of stats. However, this puts the info at the bottom of the screen. If I could programatically determine the height (since it might be changed/stretched/shrunk by the user) of the DOS (CMD) screen in lines then I could compensate for it (and if you give me that, I'd like to know the width, too, please). Alternately, if there was a simple way to blank the screen with the cursor starting off at the top left, that might be another way to go (sort of a PHP issued CLS). Thanks for considering whether this is possible/reasonable, Csaba Gabor from Vienna Note: This is distinct from http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24109 because (1) as I understand it, ncurses does not apply here because it does not work for DOS/cmd prompts. (2) I want to reuse the current window. Apropos: Perhaps an alternate approach (Ie. feature request) is to ask PHP to return a handle to its parent process. Perhaps it is possible to query that (using Windows APIs) for its properties. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31516&edit=1
