RE: Re: [PHP] exec() Error

Boyd, Todd M. wrote: >> >> Well, "http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php" is >> not an executable. >> Try this instead: >> >> exec("php <path>/calculate.php"); > > I still don't think this is how exec() should be used when executing > remote PHP scripts via HTTP, since the web server is not going to give > you the underlying code simply because you're calling the URL from PHP > and not your web browser. User-Agent tags do not a secure connection > make. That's not what Alice asked for though. She did mention that a remote call would be made somewhere, but her question was: >Has anyone tried using exec() successfully in PHP to execute files from >PHP or other programming languages? For example, C, Python, or Perl. And that works just fine using exec(). /Per Jessen, Zürich