RE: [PHP-WIN] exe app with php
| From: | Boget, Chris | Date: | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:48:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] exe app with php | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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> >Is there a way to launch an .exe app using PHP. Example;
> > Have a user click a link to notepad and have it launch the
> > user's notepad.exe for them?
> RTFM: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
Except that is server side and what the person asking the question
wants to do is client side.
Kevin, PHP can't do anything client side. You are going to have
to do that using some other technology (possibly including, if
possibel, just using a simple anchor tag).
Chris