Re: Capturing output of shell script.

correction below chuck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Williams" <hosting.mailing.list.account@acnshosting.com> To: <brad@congosystems.com>; "Php-General (E-mail)" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:54 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Capturing output of shell script. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad Hubbard" <brad@congosystems.com> > To: "Charles Williams" <hosting.mailing.list.account@acnshosting.com>; > "Php-General (E-mail)" <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 1:12 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Capturing output of shell script. > > > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 06:36, Charles Williams wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have an .sh shell script being executed from a php4 call. I need to > > > capture the string return and work with that in the php script. The > only > > > problem is that the call works but I cannot get the returned string. > I've > > > tried using exec, passthru, ``, system, and escapeshellcommand. Nothing > > > seems to work. any ideas? > > > > $capture = script.sh 2>&1; // redirect standard > > error to standard output > > > > > > Cheers, > > Brad > > Brad, > > Here is what I am trying to execute: > > $pass_string = "super cadduser -f \"".$full_name."\" -u > \"".$Username."\" -p \"".$Password."\" -q > \"".$Quota."\" -x -d > ".$top_domain; The above should be one line. > exec($pass_string, $ary_result); > echo "Result: "; > # var_dump($ary_result); > return $ary_result; > > For some reason it will only continue execution past the 'exec' call rarely. > Most of the time the script just stops after the exec call (the echo and > below is not executed). When it does go beyond the 'exec' call the var_dump > (that I use for testing only. will be gone when working) does show as an > array. > > I have the max_execution_time set to 180 so I know the script isn't timeing > out. Any ideas? I have never run into this problem before. > > thanks > chuck > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >