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seld/cli-prompt
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Allows you to prompt for user input on the command line, and optionally hide the characters they type

1.0.4(5y ago)24726.4M↓30.2%715MITPHPPHP >=5.3

Since Apr 30Pushed 1y ago4 watchersCompare

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CLI-Prompt
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While prompting for user input using `fgets()` is quite easy, sometimes you need to prompt for sensitive information. In these cases, the characters typed in by the user should not be directly visible, and this is quite a pain to do in a cross-platform way.

This tiny package fixes just that for you:

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