The following code shows how to test for input on STDIN. In this case, we were looking for CSV data, so we use fgetcsv to read STDIN, if it creates an array, we assume CVS input on STDIN, if no array was created, we assume there's no input from STDIN, and look, later, to an argument with a CSV file name.
Note, without the stream_set_blocking() call, fgetcsv() hangs on STDIN, awaiting input from the user, which isn't useful as we're looking for a piped file. If it isn't here already, it isn't going to be.
<?php
stream_set_blocking(STDIN, 0);
$csv_ar = fgetcsv(STDIN);
if (is_array($csv_ar)){
print "CVS on STDIN\n";
} else {
print "Look to ARGV for CSV file name.\n";
}
?>