Command to clear screen in PHP?

[Narz]

Is there a Clear Screen command in PHP? Thanks!

[Ökii]

Clear what screen? The browser page?

[Spookster]

T.V. Screen? lol

[bcarl314]

I think they're asking for the command to clear the screen when your using php from the command line. Like clr in DOS or clear in Linux. Is it possible wiht PHP from the command line?

[ConfusedOfLife]

Check this out!

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/show...eadid=10219750

[fish_liver_oil]

Hi, using the exec and system commmands might not work,

but if you use the passthru command, combined with the clear bash command, it WILL work. that is:

passthru('clear');

that will clear the screen

[ralph l mayo]

sweet thread. I installed php5-cgi just to verify this works:

PHP Code:


function cls()
{
    array_map(create_function('$a', 'print chr($a);'), array(27, 91, 72, 27, 91, 50, 74));
} 


edit: caveat: only tested in xterm and konsole, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on DOS or a television or an etch-a-sketch.

[rafiki]

Originally Posted by ralph l mayo

edit: caveat: only tested in xterm and konsole, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on DOS or a television or an etch-a-sketch.

Quality, havent even heard of an etch-a-sketch for years

[z666zz666z]

Originally Posted by ralph l mayo

sweet thread. I installed php5-cgi just to verify this works:

PHP Code:


function cls()
{
    array_map(create_function('$a', 'print chr($a);'), array(27, 91, 72, 27, 91, 50, 74));
} 


Tested on Windows 7, not working!!

It only shows on screen this: ←[H←[2J

[FrankyBKK]

I had the same problems. After some hours of searching in the internet, I was sure that there are no good answers, I made some experiments. Luckily experiment 3 worked.

This works on all Windows Computers. I guess that it will work on Linux and other systems too, as long as the PHP Console is a HTML Console (any Web Browser) and Javascript is on this Browser activated.

I started this file on my localhost and uploaded the PHP file to my server and started it from there. Both tests did the CLS. I tried it on Windows XP and a friend did a test on Windows 7, and it worked on his Windows 7 too.

It executes on the client's computer in the PHP file an javascript code.


<?php

echo "<script type='text/javascript'>\n";
echo "document.body.innerHTML = ''";
echo "</script>";

?>

[tangoforce]

That isn't the same thing as what the op was asking 10 years ago Franky. The op was asking how to clear the screen when using php in command line form. PHP is commonly known as a server side language so most people would understand that you can't use it to clear a browser.

The code you've posted is simply javascript. The fact that you're echoing it out via php doesn't mean that its actually php clearing the browser screen.