PHP expect

This PHP extension allows to interact with processes through PTY, using expect library.

Examples

The following example connects to the remote host via SSH, and prints the remote uptime:

<?php
ini_set("expect.loguser", "Off");

$stream = fopen("expect://ssh root@remotehost uptime", "r");

$cases = array (
    array (0 => "password:", 1 => PASSWORD)
);

switch (expect_expectl ($stream, $cases)) {
    case PASSWORD:
        fwrite ($stream, "password\n");
        break;
 
    default:
        die ("Error was occurred while connecting to the remote host!\n");
}

while ($line = fgets($stream)) {
      print $line;
}
fclose ($stream);
?>

More complex example connects to the remote host, determines whether installed OS is for 32 or 64 bit, then runs update for specific package:

<?php
ini_set("expect.timeout", -1);
ini_set("expect.loguser", "Off");

$stream = expect_popen("ssh root@remotehost");

while (true) {
    switch (expect_expectl ($stream, array (
            array ("password:", PASSWORD), // SSH is asking for password
            array ("yes/no)?", YESNO), // SSH is asking whether to store the host entry
            array ("~$ ", SHELL, EXP_EXACT), // We've got the shell!
    ))) {
        case PASSWORD:
            fwrite ($stream, "secret\n");
            break;

        case YESNO:
            fwrite ($stream, "yes\n");
            break;

        case SHELL:
            fwrite ($stream, "uname -a\n");
            while (true) {
                    switch (expect_expectl ($stream, array (
                            array ("~$ ", SHELL, EXP_EXACT), // We've got the shell!
                            array ("^Linux.*$", UNAME, EXP_REGEXP), // uname -a output
                    ), $match)) {
                        case UNAME:
                            $uname .= $match[0];
                            break;

                        case SHELL:
                            // Run update:
                            if (strstr ($uname, "x86_64")) {
                                    fwrite ($stream, "rpm -Uhv http://mirrorsite/somepath/some_64bit.rpm\n");
                            } else {
                                    fwrite ($stream, "rpm -Uhv http://mirrorsite/somepath/some_32bit.rpm\n");
                            }
                            fwrite ($stream, "exit\n");
                            break 2;

                        case EXP_TIMEOUT:
                        case EXP_EOF:
                            break 2;

                        default:
                            die ("Error has occurred!\n");
                    }
            }
            break 2;

        case EXP_TIMEOUT:
        case EXP_EOF:
            break 2;

        default:
            die ("Error has occurred!\n");
    }
}

fclose ($stream);
?>

Documentation

For documentation please refer to PHP.net