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ncurses examples (plus undocumented)

Type:	application
Added by:	joeldg
Entered:	15/12/2002
Last modified:	02/11/2001
Rating:	- (fewer than 3 votes)
Views:	5057

I started playing around with ncurses in PHP with php 4.3.0.rc0 compiled with --with-ncurses and started noticing a huge lack of *any* documentation.. There are a lot of functions I write which could make good use of the functions as I write a lot of php shell scripts.

<?php
 /*

                            php 4.3.0rc0 compiled with the following

                            ./configure --with-mysql --enable-pcntl --with-tsrm-pthreads --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --with-curl --enable-bcmath --enable-cli --enable-sigchild --enable-sockets --with-ncurses


                            */
 ini_set("ncurses.value",42);
 ini_set("ncurses.string","foobar");

                            
 $n=0;

                            $a = ncurses_init();//$a,$b,$c,$d,$e,$f,$g,$h
 $z = ncurses_newwin ( 15, 15, 10, 10);

                            

                            if(ncurses_has_colors()){

                                ncurses_start_color();

                                    ncurses_init_pair(1,NCURSES_COLOR_RED,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);

                                    ncurses_init_pair(2,NCURSES_COLOR_BLUE,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);

                                    ncurses_init_pair(3,NCURSES_COLOR_YELLOW,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);

                                    ncurses_init_pair(4,NCURSES_COLOR_BLUE,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);

                                    ncurses_init_pair(5,NCURSES_COLOR_MAGENTA,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);

                                    ncurses_init_pair(6,NCURSES_COLOR_CYAN,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);

                                    ncurses_init_pair(7,NCURSES_COLOR_WHITE,NCURSES_COLOR_BLACK);

                            }
 ncurses_border(0,0, 0,0, 0,0, 0,0);

                            while(1){

                            for ($x=1; $x<80; $x++) {

                            for ($y=1; $y<24; $y++) {

                              $n++;

                              ncurses_move($y,$x);

                              ncurses_addch($n+64);

                              ncurses_color_set($n%8);

                              ncurses_refresh();

                              if($n>26)$n=0;

                            }

                            }
 $z = ncurses_newwin ( 15, 15, 10, 10);
 /*

                                the following function ncurses_wborder() has nothing written about it on

                                php.net. I was reading through the ncurses examples and man pages when I just


                                decided to try the following.... then I started 'n'cursing... 

                            */
 ncurses_wborder($z,0,0, 0,0, 0,0, 0,0); // undocumented function

                            
 ncurses_wrefresh($z);
 ncurses_getch(); // wait for use to press key
 }

                            
 // here is a function I wrote before realizing that php ncurses had this built-in


                            // as the following two functions

                            // ncurses_getmaxyx($z, $x, $y); // undocumented function gets maximum x and y

                            // ncurses_getyx($window_handle, $return_y, $return_x); // undocumented function, get current x/y

                            // 
 function getmaxxy(){

                                $rez = `/usr/X11R6/bin/resize`;

                                $rez = explode("n",$rez);

                                while(list($key,$val)=each($rez)){

                                    $a=explode("=",$val);

                                    if(trim($a[0])=="COLUMNS"){ $COLUMNS = $a[1]; }

                                    if(trim($a[0])=="LINES"){ $LINES = $a[1]; }

                                }//

                                $retval[0]=$COLUMNS;

                                $retval[1]=$LINES;

                               return $retval;

                            }

                            
 ?>

Usage Example

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