note 24176 added to ref.exec

Such a long-winded page, this. But none offered anything useful to me. I needed to execute a simple command, which works at the shell prompt but does not work through the PHP exec. If you do this: ---------- CODE ------------ $result = exec ("ls -ali"); ---------- /CODE ------------ and find that your variable contains nothing, don't be surprised. Try this instead: ---------- CODE ------------ exec ("ls -ali", $resultArray); reset($resultArray); while (list ($key, $val) = each ($resultArray)) { $resultLines .= "\n" . trim($val); } ---------- /CODE ------------ The variable "resultLines" will contain all the results. Hope this helps someone. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24176 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24176 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24176