[Sussex] Welcome to Newbies

[Paul Turner]

Gareth,

There are four ways (that I know of) to integrate a command line program in
to php.  There are subtle differences between them, but for returning text
out (I believe thats all you need) any of them should work.

Try this,  I hope it helps you.

<?
  echo "<pre>";

  // exec version
  exec("ls -la", $result);
  foreach ($result as $line)
    echo "$line\n";

  echo "<br><hr><br>";

  // passthru version
  passthru("ls -la");

  echo "<br><hr><br>";

  // system version
  $result = system("ls -la");

  echo "<br><hr><br>";

  // backticks version
  $result = `ls -la`;
  echo $result;

  echo "</pre>";

?>

Regards Paul.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dobson" <SDobson at manh.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Welcome to Newbies


> Gareth
>
> On 06 March 2002 at 20:41 Gareth ABLETT wrote:
>             ^^^^
> Check you're system time mate - or have to travelled back in time
> with yesterday's e-mails?
>
>
> > Folowing that well you wrote a program in C and well to do
> > anything like intergrating that into the site is more hard work
> > so i'm not sure of what i need to do will have to look into it.
>
> All you should need to do is locate the binary in a path that is
> configured to be available to apache and it's sub-processes.  Then
> call in from the php file (which I haven't a clue about).  I've
> done this sort of thing with SSI.
>
> Steve
>
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