Re: exec("mysql -h hhh -u uuu -pppp <test.php",$out,$bin);

Gert Cuykens wrote:

i do not get any output from mysql except form echo $bin that displays 1 ? <?php exec("mysql -h hhh -u uuu -pppp <test.php",$out,$bin); print_r($out); echo $bin; ?>

I don't know for sure but chances are that mysql outputs errors on stderr not stdout, so you need to redirect stderr to stdout for exec to capture it... exec("mysql -h hhh -u uuu -pppp < test.php 2>&1",$out,$bin); -Stut