Re: Running CLI from a web page

I have a report that I would like to run as a cron job, hence the need for a standalone CLI version that just reads the database and has no other context. But...I would also like to run this report on demand from within a web application. It seemed "obvious" that all I'd have to do was execute my command line via the system/exec/passthru type of function. I can't see how I would use eval() here, since in the command line: "php foo", foo is a file. A possibility here, however, is to use "include foo". The only reason I didn't want to do that is because then the code in foo might conflict with the context surrounding the include. I was hoping for a simpler solution, but I might be able to isolate the include in a function. "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> wrote in message news:20031111000408.65624.qmail@web14304.mail.yahoo.com... > --- Ron Rudman <ron@helphosts.com> wrote: > > There are already plenty of echo statements in foo! They DO show up > > when I run php foo. It's when I try to use system("php foo") that I > > don't get anything. > > I missed the original question, but why are you trying to use the PHP CLI > from within PHP itself? Can you perhaps use eval() instead? > > http://www.php.net/eval > > Hope that helps. > > Chris > > ===== > My Blog > http://shiflett.org/ > HTTP Developer's Handbook > http://httphandbook.org/ > RAMP Training Courses > http://www.nyphp.org/ramp