[Phpwm] Fnuction to calculate a formula

[Greg Jones]

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:53:59 -0000, Colin Taylor  
<colin.taylor at btclick.com> wrote:

> 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
>


There isn't really an benefit to doing that over using eval(), both leave  
you open to exploits if it's user-data being processed, but using exec  
will spawn a new php process, and potentially leaves the shell as well as  
PHP itself open to exploitation.

Greg