PHP snippet to prompt for an answer on the CLI.

prompt_answer.php

function prompt_answer($exit = TRUE) {
	$handle = fopen ("php://stdin","r");
	$line = fgets($handle);
	if(trim($line) !== 'y' && !empty(trim($line))) {
		fclose($handle);
		if($exit) {
			echo "ABORTING!" . PHP_EOL;
			exit;
		} else {
			return FALSE;
		}
	}
	if(!$exit) {
		return TRUE;
	}
}