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How can I call a command line executable from within PHP?

Jun 8th, 2008 21:30
dman, ha mo, Kerim Cilingiroglu, Heini van Bergen, Philip Olson, Chris Kings-Lynne, Darren David, http://www.ttnr.org

Check out the "Program Execution functions" here :
 
    http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php

As well as the `backtick` execution operator :

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.execution.php

Consider exec() :

    exec — Execute an external program                :
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    http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

Be aware of conflicts with user rights..
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I dont suggest you to do that within php. because it has security
concerns. but if 
you are desperate then use shell_exec
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