It appears that if I have a fopen to stdin anywhere in my code that PHP will prompt for stdin at the beginning of its execution instead of where I put it in the code.

The following example shows it:
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?

print "BEFORE\n";
$cd=fopen("php://stdin","r");
$cd2=fread($cd,1);
print "AFTER\n";
?>

Now as soon as I execute it, it sits and waits for me to enter stdin, then prints
BEFORE
AFTER

It should be showing BEFORE and then prompt for STDIN, unless there is something major I am missing here.