[Sussex] executing binaries from PHP

[Gareth Ablett]

Hi Matt,

The first thing that comes to mind is exec() this will allow you to run
a shell command and return the output.

Although you host might have also disallowed this.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [mailto:matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk]
> Sent: 09 July 2004 2:59 pm
> To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Sussex] executing binaries from PHP
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently building a system that requires spell-checking.  I've
> looked at a few solutions that I could integrate into the system,
> however they all require access to the /bin or /usr/bin which my
webhost
> won't let me have (and quite rightly too! :p).
> 
> I'm looking at using aspell or ispell.
> 
> I have a directory in which I can place executables (my cgi-bin will
> allow C, java, cgi etc.), however I'm not sure how to link to them to
> execute them. Has anyone had any experience of this kind of thing and
> can help me out?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Matt
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