note 108713 added to function.system

This is for WINDOWS users. I am running apache and I have been trying for hours now to capture the output of a command. I'd tried everything that is written here and then continued searching online with no luck at all. The output of the command was never captured. All I got was an empty array. Finally, I found a comment in a blog by a certain amazing guy that solved my problems. Adding the string ' 2>&1' to the command name finally returned the output!! This works in exec() as well as system() in PHP since it uses stream redirection to redirect the output to the correct place! system("yourCommandName 2>&1",$output) ; ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 94.71.116.218 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/108713 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108713/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108713/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108713/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108713/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108713/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108713/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108713 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/108713 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php