[Phpwm] Fnuction to calculate a formula

[Colin Taylor]

For info, I finally settled on:

$command="/usr/local/bin/php -r \"echo \"2+2\";\"";
$res=exec($command);

Seems to do the trick.
Now to find a dictionary to find out how to spell "Fnuction".
Cheers,
Colin

On Tuesday 04 Dec 2007 18:04, Colin Taylor wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.
> I had a brain wave on the way home, its amazing what you think of whilst
> driving.
> What about using a system call like:
>
> php -r "echo 2+2;"
>
> Then fetch the result of the system call.
> So long as the formula doesn't break any PHP rules, it seems to work.
> Cheers,
> Colin
>
> On Tuesday 04 Dec 2007 16:43, Phil Beynon wrote:
> > > Phil Beynon wrote :
> > > > > Tell people with Javascript turned off to go and buy a calculator
> > > > > ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Pete
> > > >
> > > > You can't, they don't have javascript turned on so the bloody popup
> > > > code doesn't work! :-)
> > >
> > > <noscript>
> > > Oh dear. Buy a calculator.
> > > </noscript>
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Goodwin
> >
> > As a matter of interest does anyone actually bother to put <noscript>
> > tags anymore?
> >
> > A lot of my would pages lose so much functionality without javascript
> > being turned on that they barely work. If a user has javascript disabled
> > they probably know its disabled and already accept that most sites aren't
> > goingto operate well.
> >
> > Phil
> >
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