Getting the Output from System Commands in WINNT
| From: | Shane Almeida | Date: | Sat, 04 Nov 2000 19:05:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Getting the Output from System Commands in WINNT | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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I've determined that finger is actually being invoked, it shows up as a
process momentarily as the page is loading. It seems that my problem is in
the way I am trying to get the output. Any suggestions? See below for the
approaches I have tried...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Is there a way to execute system commands in
> WINNT using PHP? I'm trying to get the output
> of finger.exe to show up on my webpage but so
> far nothing is working. I've tried this:
>
> <?
> $finger = "finger someone@somewhere";
> system($finger);
> ?>
>
> and
>
> <?
> $finger = "finger someone@somewhere";
> passthru($finger);
> ?>
>
> and
>
> <?
> $finger = "finger someone@somewhere";
> exec($finger);
> ?>
>
> and nothing works. I've also tried giving the
> path to finger in different ways:
> C:\WINNT\System32\finger.exe and
> \WINNT\System32\finger.exe. I made a copy of
> finger.exe and put it in my web directory and
> still no luck. Any ideas?