note 95651 added to function.shell-exec

it took me a heck of a lot of head banging to finally solve this problem so I thought that I would mention it here. If you are using Eclipse and you try to do something like <?php $out = shell_exec("php -s $File"); //this fails ?> it will always fail when run inside of the Eclipse debugger. This happens on both Linux and Windows. I finally isolated the problem to changes that Eclipse makes to the environment when debugging. The fix is to force the ini setting. If you don't need an ini then -n is sufficient. <?php $out = shell_exec("php -n -s $File"); //this works ?> Of course if you run it outside of the debugger then it works fine without the -n. You may want to use a debug flag to control this behavior. ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 71.35.165.229 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/95651 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95651/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95651/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95651/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95651/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95651/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95651/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/95651 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/95651 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php