Re: exec() Error

Wei, Alice J. wrote: > I have got a task from my client asking me to build something > that allows the variables in the PHP file passed to another > PHP file or a file in a different computer language to perform > some operations on another remote machine. According to my > client, he calls this behind the scenes to avoid users screw > up the front end, and I am hoping that I can produce one > single script, and have it execute some script without the > user pushing any button. Has anyone tried using exec() > successfully in PHP to execute files from PHP or other > programming languages? For example, C, Python, or Perl. Yeah, that's no big deal. That's what exec() does. > I have tried this by putting in > > exec("http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php"); Well, "http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php" is not an executable. Try this instead: exec("php <path>/calculate.php"); /Per Jessen, Zürich