Re: Help with exec.

On 3 March 2010 13:01, Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to pipe some data to an external application. > > I have this: > > while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($theData[0])) { >    $src_ip[] = $row[0]; >    $dst_ip[] = $row[1]; >    $sig_desc[] = $row[2]; > >    $rec ++; >    if ( $rec == $recCount ) { >            break; >    } > } > > for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($src_ip); $i++) { >    $tmpResult[] = "$sig_desc[$i],$src_ip[$i],$dst_ip[$i]\n"; > } > > > The external program is called like: > > cat results.csv | theprogram outputfilename > > Is there a way mimic this w/o outputting $tmpResult to a file first? > > Thanks. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I believe you can use popen() to open "theprogram" and pipe to it the content and read back the results. All without writing to any files. -- ----- Richard Quadling "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" EE : http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_248814.html EE4Free : http://www.experts-exchange.com/becomeAnExpert.jsp Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling