note 56988 added to function.exec

To my way of thinking, it is a good idea to execute programs from the cgi-bin directory of the Web server, to get a little control over configuring a system (at install time, a pointer to the actual program can be symlinked from the cgi-bin directory and the code won't ever have to be changed). If you'd like to do this, under Apache at least, the following should work: if (!($ProgInfo = apache_lookup_uri(/cgi-bin/myprog))) $ProgPath = /usr/bin/myprog; else { if (is_object($ProgInfo)) $ProgPath = $ProgInfo->filename; else $ProgPath = $ProgInfo["filename"]; } exec("$ProgPath ..."); ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+56988 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56988&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56988&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56988&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56988&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56988&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56988&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+56988&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+56988&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php