Re: CLI script & exec() - how to control what gets dumped on the screen.

Myron Turner wrote: > exec() doesn't output anything. It fills the array with the result 'the result' is a bit of a nebulous concept - exec() fills the output array with whatever the called script/program *spat out on stdout*. my fault was indeed thinking along such 'the result' lines - I did not consider that stderr was not part of 'the result' and that most programs seem to happily spit out their output to stderr (e.g. apache2ctl, cvs, mysql to name a few that I was calling in the problem script) and yes I'm still rather baffled as to why something like apache2ctl would dump the string 'Syntax OK' to stderr - if ever there was some user feedback that *didn't* represent an error it would be 'Syntax OK'. idiosyntastic (yes I know that not a word) > (your $output) and then you have to loop through the array and print it > to the screen, appending your own line-feeds. ah so you got the the photo of me with "total f'ing noob" tattooed on my forehead then? obviously the photo is not of very good quality because the tattoo actually says: "this idiot is liable to write WITH when he means WITHOUT" 2 other people did successfully manage to translate the WITH to WITHOUT based on the rest of what I wrote - thankfully :-) > > See the PHP manual page. wassat? > > > Myron > > Jochem Maas wrote: >> I have been trying to figure out how to use exec to run some commandline >> scripts (some perl scripts & mysql in this case) WITH the output of >> the commands >> run via exec being shown on the screen. >> >> neither of these examples have the desired effect: >> >> $output = array(); $exit = 0; >> exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit); >> >> >> $output = array(); $exit = 0; >> @exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit); >> >> please someone tell me there is a decent way to do this (something >> to do with STD input/output redirection or something?) and that I'm >> not left >> with trying something like: >> >> ob_start(); >> $output = array(); $exit1 = $exit2 = 0; >> @exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit1); >> ob_end_clean(); >> >> ... of which I don't even know if it would work. >> >> anyone care to share their clue? > >