note 96581 added to function.passthru

to jo: You may or may not be right about passthru going through shell, but your example doesn't prove your point (at least not how you have stated it). If you use single quotes, PHP treats everything inside as a string, so variables aren't treated as variables, but as part of the string. So if you have: passthru('echo $PATH'); it is the exact same thing as writing echo $PATH at a command line. if you have: $PATH = "I love beans!"; passthru("echo $PATH"); This would be the same as writing echo I love beans at the command line (not sure if php quote wraps it or not). Variables only get treated as variable when used in strings when you double-quote the entire string. ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.55 Probable Submitter: 128.83.176.162 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.passthru.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/96581 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96581/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96581/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96581/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96581/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96581/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96581/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96581 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/96581 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php