Re: Anyone have any experience with the EXEC function?
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:03:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Anyone have any experience with the EXEC function? | ||
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On Saturday 15 June 2002 00:57, Batch wrote:
> I am trying to exec a perl script from my php code.
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> exec("perlpath/perlscript.pl $var", $array)
Using exec() like this would put the exit code of your perl script into $array
-- which isn't what you want. Use shell_exec() or backticks:
$array =
perlpath/perlscript.pl $var;
Note that $array is in fact a string and not an array!
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