Put data in php://input from command line

Question

I have a little PHP script that reads from php://input. With my command line I can run the script but I don't know how to "fill" the php://input.

I tryed using php file.php < my_test_data but it fills the php://stdin not the php://input

The script could be summarized in this:

<?php echo file_get_contents('php://input'); ?>

Answer 1

php://input only works for scripts run from the webserver.

When CLI scripts need to access standard input, they use php://stdin, or the already opened stream STDIN:

<?php echo file_get_contents('php://stdin'); ?>

or

<?php echo stream_get_contents(STDIN); ?>