PHP Show CMD Command Prompt Window (Windows)
Usually, you would want to hide the CMD window.
In my case, I'll be doing some tests with PHP+CLI.
It will be mighty useful if PHP could be made to launch a CLI popup.
But alas, I can't find a way to make it to.

The following command should have made  it work, but it doesn't:

    START "PHP AE2" /B CMD /K DIR

The PHP code in question is based on `proc_open()`:

    $proc=proc_open($cmd,array(
        0=>array('pipe','r'), // STDIN
        1=>array('pipe','w'), // STDOUT
        2=>array('pipe','w')  // STDERR
    ),$pipes);
    // ....some stream stuff....
    $return=proc_close($proc);

Although the command runs fine, the popup doesn't show up. I suspect this is a feature of Apache. Is there a way to completely detach the CMD from its parent?

Also, I'll be substituting `DIR` with a small script/batch/program that initializes the environment, so it is important that I can execute a program after the popup shows up.

This is mostly for educational purposes and won't follow into production. So please focus on the problem ahead and no unnecessary diversions (thanks).
PHP Show CMD Command Prompt Window (Windows)
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Usually, you would want to hide the CMD window.
In my case, I'll be doing some tests with PHP+CLI.
It will be mighty useful if PHP could be made to launch a CLI popup.
But alas, I can't find a way to make it to.

The following command should have made  it work, but it doesn't:

    START "PHP AE2" /B CMD /K DIR

The PHP code in question is based on `proc_open()`:

    $proc=proc_open($cmd,array(
        0=>array('pipe','r'), // STDIN
        1=>array('pipe','w'), // STDOUT
        2=>array('pipe','w')  // STDERR
    ),$pipes);
    // ....some stream stuff....
    $return=proc_close($proc);

Although the command runs fine, the popup doesn't show up. I suspect this is a feature of Apache. Is there a way to completely detach the CMD from its parent?

Also, I'll be substituting `DIR` with a small script/batch/program that initializes the environment, so it is important that I can execute a program after the popup shows up.

This is mostly for educational purposes and won't follow into production. So please focus on the problem ahead and no unnecessary diversions (thanks).