popup.php

Displays native popup dialog boxes for PHP CLI on Linux/BSD and Windows desktops.

API :

// OK button
function popup_warning ( string $MESSAGE , string $TITLE = NULL ) : bool ;
function popup_error   ( string $MESSAGE , string $TITLE = NULL ) : bool ;

// YES / NO buttons
function popup_question( string $MESSAGE , string $TITLE = NULL ) : bool ;

// OK button
function popup_info( string $MESSAGE , string $TITLE = NULL , string $TYPE = POPUP_INFO ) : bool ;

If $TITLE is left to NULL, the name of the main PHP script will be used as title for the dialog box.

Example :

<?php
include("popup.php");

popup_warning( "I'm going to ask you a question!" , "WARNING" );

if ( popup_question( "Are you ready?", "The question is ..." ) )
{
  popup_info( "The user is ready.", "Confirmation" );
}
else
{
  popup_error( "The user is not ready." , "ERROR" );
}

Fallbacks :

If the script can't call a native OS or desktop dialog box, it will fallback to terminal user input.

On Windows :

1. if the PHP module FFI is available, will call MessageBoxW() and will try to use iconv
2. else, fallback to readline()
3. else, error.

On Linux/BSD :

1. try zenity
2. else, kdialog
3. else, xmessage
4. else, readline
5. else, read

TODO :

• file selection dialog box
• text input dialog box