Re: note 9561 added to fopen

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > You can't. > > On 11 Nov 2000 tait@mediaafeks.com wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to open a program (application) on a clients computer using server > > side scripting in php4? Just to expand: PHP alone can't do this. You can trigger an attempted download to a folder on a Mac machine which can then trigger a program, if that folder has an action to it. You can use MS Active X interpreters to open up applications for unusual filetypes. You can have users set up a MIME type to trigger an application. You can set up a cron job similar to the mac os setup, and in a minute or so, launch an app, you can create java applets for users to download and run, or shockwave mini-applets... But you can't force it. That would lead to people creating remote drive-formatting virii, so viewing a web page would suddenly be a very, very, bad thing. And while PHP can help you with some of the other things, it's not designed to do things on/to a users hard drive, beyond forms, downloads, and cookies. -Bop -- Brought to you from iBop the iMac, a MacOS, Win95, Win98, LinuxPPC machine, which is currently in MacOS land. Your bopping may vary.