note 49257 modified in function.exec by danbrown

Ok, well after looking around for a long time on how to execute programs and not have them hanging in the processes in windows I have come up with a solution thats good for me but some of you may laugh. Credit to msheakoski @t yahoo d@t com for the example script above here somewhere. My problem was that I sometimes restart my server remotely and it doesn't turn on my ftp when my computer starts up, I do this so it will start up quicker. But when I want my ftp open I was using a script that executed a .bat from php. However I found this leaves processes running that were dead. I saw msheakoski's solution: <?php $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell"); $oExec = $WshShell->Run("notepad.exe", 3, true); ?> Well I tried sticking in my ftp program executible name where he had notepad.exe. It didn't work. Then I realized that windows will execute anything in the windows directory without including the entire path. So I made a lnk file called FTP.link. I then edited msheakoski's script to: <?php $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell"); $oExec = $WshShell->Run("FTP.lnk", 3, false); ?> And voila! It runs my ftp program and cmd nor php.exe run in the background dead. Simple yet effective, (just how I like it). Hope this helps you as much as it did me. Brian --was-- Ok, well after looking around for a long time on how to execute programs and not have them hanging in the processes in windows I have come up with a solution thats good for me but some of you may laugh. Credit to msheakoski @t yahoo d@t com for the example script above here somewhere. My problem was that I sometimes restart my server remotely and it doesn't turn on my ftp when my computer starts up, I do this so it will start up quicker. But when I want my ftp open I was using a script that executed a .bat from php. However I found this leaves processes running that were dead. I saw msheakoski's solution: <? $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell"); $oExec = $WshShell->Run("notepad.exe", 3, true); ?> Well I tried sticking in my ftp program executible name where he had notepad.exe. It didn't work. Then I realized that windows will execute anything in the windows directory without including the entire path. So I made a lnk file called FTP.link. I then edited msheakoski's script to: <? $WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell"); $oExec = $WshShell->Run("FTP.lnk", 3, false); ?> And voila! It runs my ftp program and cmd nor php.exe run in the background dead. Simple yet effective, (just how I like it). Hope this helps you as much as it did me. Brian http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php