Re: Execute EXE with variables

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:16 +1300, German Geek wrote: > Hi, > > I've had a lot of problems with shell_exec too. Mostly it was permissions or > environment variables not being set. i dont know if there is a way to set > environment variables in the php.ini but if not you can set them with > shell_exec as well, at least on unix it works. You can simply concatenate > the commands necessary with a colon (;) inbetween. Maybe you can have > multiple shell_exec commands and it stays in the same env. Not sure about > this though. Please someone enlighten us on this... > > Hope some of this helped. > > Regards, > Tim > > Tim-Hinnerk Heuer > > http://www.ihostnz.com > Jay London - "My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood > swings." > > 2009/2/14 Dan Shirah <mrsquash2@gmail.com> > > > > > > > Use the system() command, and enclose both your command and its > > > parameters in a pair of single quotes, as: > > > > > > system('mycmd -a alfa -b bravo'); > > > > > > Paul > > > -- > > > Paul M. Foster > > > > > > > Using both exec() and system() I am getting the error: Unable to fork > > I use the exec() function regularly and have no troubles passing more than one argument to it. Admittedly, I've not tried this on a Windows system, just a Linux one, and I was using exec() to call a Bash script, which should behave like an exe I guess. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk