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PHP Dialog: Create console based UIs with the dialog program

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This package can create console based user interfaces with the dialog program.

It takes the definition of dialog based user interfaces and creates them using dialog program to display the user interfaces and wait for the user responses.

It comes with several plug-in classes that can build many types of dialogs like forms, checkbox lists, calendar date picker, file selection, etc..

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Some applications need to run from text based consoles with a command line interface shell.

However, most users are more familiar with GUI based user interfaces controls and metaphors.

This class can be used to implement text based interfaces with some of the common controls found in GUI applications.

It uses the dialog program to implement those controls, so it can pass the necessary parameters to the dialog program and can handle the response values returned by that program.

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PHP Dialog v1.0 Author: Michele Brodoloni <mik.linux@gmail.com> +--------------+ | DESCRIPTION | +--------------+ This class allows you to create pretty dialog boxes within your php-cli scripts. It relies on Linux "dialog" utility. +--------------+ | REQUIREMENTS | +--------------+ * PHP 5.3 (due to a bug with proc_open() in PHP 5.1) * dialog 1.0 / 1.1 +--------------+ | INSTALLATION | +--------------+ * Install the dialog utility using your favority package manager - apt-get install dialog # (For Debian/Ubuntu) - yum install dialog # (For RHEL/CentOS) * Download and extract this tarball * Place file class.dialog.php and the plugins directory wherever you want but in the same path. +--------------+ | BASIC USAGE | +--------------+ To use this class just include it, and call the static factory() method to fetch the wanted object. Here's an example: ----------[ CODE:START ]-------------- <?php require_once 'path/to/class.dialog.php'; $dialog = Dialog::factory($type, $params); ?> ----------[ CODE:END ]----------------- * $type is the type of dialog requested. Possible choices are: - confirm - msgbox - gauge - inputbox - calendar - timebox - ... And so on. Just list files into 'plugins' directory. * $params is an optional associative array which sets default params during object construction. It could come handy when need to instantiate several dialog objects with the same values (such as title, backtitle, ecc..) ----------[ CODE:START ]-------------- <?php require_once 'path/to/class.dialog.php'; $params = array( 'backtitle' => 'My App', 'title' => 'Box title' ); $d1 = dialog::factory('msgbox', $params); $d1->setCaption('Hello World #1') ->show(); $secs=5; $d2 = dialog::factory('pause', $options); $d2->setCaption("Please wait $secs seconds.") ->setSeconds($secs) ->show(); ?> ----------[ CODE:END ]----------------- +---------------+ | DOCUMENTATION | +---------------+ For further information please download and extract the zip file located into the docs directory and then open the index.html file in the extracted directory.

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  Plain text file class.dialog.php Class Class source

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  Plain text file calendar.php Class Class source
  Plain text file checklist.php Class Class source
  Plain text file confirm.php Class Class source
  Plain text file fileselect.php Class Class source
  Plain text file form.php Class Class source
  Plain text file gauge.php Class Class source
  Plain text file infobox.php Class Class source
  Plain text file inputbox.php Class Class source
  Plain text file inputmenu.php Class Class source
  Plain text file menu.php Class Class source
  Plain text file msgbox.php Class Class source
  Plain text file password.php Class Class source
  Plain text file pause.php Class Class source
  Plain text file radio.php Class Class source
  Plain text file tailbox.php Class Class source
  Plain text file textbox.php Class Class source
  Plain text file time.php Class Class source

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The main dialog class has some OOP problems that could be eas...
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examples did not work
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What's a good package! Buy need more Documentation.
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