Re: 'Running' a file from PHP script

Ah, well, can't help you there, sorry. -Steve On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 09:40 AM, George Pitcher wrote:

Steve, Thanks for the response, but it's a server-side 'run' I'm looking for, not client-side (they get web access to the db). Basically I want to be able to test that the db is running and if it isn't then I want to 'run' it. Platform is NT, server is IIS4 George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Cayford" <steve_cayford@unioncab.com> To: "George Pitcher" <fmdev@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] 'Running' a file from PHP script

On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 02:22 AM, George Pitcher wrote:

Hi all, I'm a PHP newbie, my main scipring being done in Blueworld's Lasso. I have used php fro time to time with Lasso to do some file handling. My question is: 'Can I run a file from a PHP script?' The file in question would be a Filemaker database file. I want to be able to open the file in the Filemaker application if the file is not already running.

If you mean can you open the Filemaker application on the client's machine using PHP, then no. Keep in mind that PHP is only running on the server(*), all the client machine sees is the HTML output from your PHP script. Maybe you could use javascript to do this, but I haven't used javascript much. -Steve (*) Assuming you're using PHP in its normal web-server scripting mode.

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