Posted by J.O. Aho on 05/06/07 15:15

ashore wrote:
> Under Win32/Vista, PHP 5, I have a batch of files to convert and I'm
> trying to script that in PHP.
>
> The line below fails silently - while the hand-entered version (sans
> the escapes of course) works correctly. I've tried system() and added
> an output parameter to the exec() call, but the silence remains.
>
> exec ("C:\\Program Files\\FWTools\\ogr2ogr-f \"MapInfo File\" f:\
> \out2.mif f:\\tgr24001\\tgr24001cty00.shp");
>
> Ideas on how to troubleshoot this are most welcome. --AS
>
How do you execute the PHP script, from CLI or HTTP?

if CLI, the program you use don't report errors to the CLI if something goes
wrong.

if over HTTP, the convert process takes longer than the timeout time, so the
script will be terminated before it finish.

--

//Aho

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