--TEST-- STDIN input --FILE-- <?php var_dump(stream_get_contents(STDIN)); var_dump(stream_get_contents(fopen('php://stdin', 'r'))); var_dump(file_get_contents('php://stdin')); ?> --STDIN-- fooBar use this to input some thing to the php script --EXPECT-- string(54) "fooBar use this to input some thing to the php script " string(0) "" string(0) ""