note 22835 added to ref.exec

I've been trying to write a process threader in PHP and I couldn't for the life of me get system(), exec() or and of the command functions to sucessfully execute a "lynx -dump" command. It worked fine from the command line, but not from within a php page. I ended up using the "wget" command (with the background option) to do it, then removed it's log. It's messy, but it works. exec("wget 'http://www.yoursite.com/threads/thread1.php' -b -O wget-log-1 >&- <&- >/dev/null &"); exec("wget 'http://www.yoursite.com/threads/thread2.php' -b -O wget-log-2 >&- <&- >/dev/null &"); exec("wget 'http://www.yoursite.com/threads/thread3.php' -b -O wget-log-3 >&- <&- >/dev/null &"); exec("wget 'http://www.yoursite.com/threads/thread4.php' -b -O wget-log-4 >&- <&- >/dev/null &"); Good Luck... -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+22835 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+22835 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+22835