Posted by Tony B on 08/10/07 15:46

I have a intranet website on one of our windows machines that runs apache
2.0 and php5. In the browser, for one particular link on the site, I want to
run a win32 command line program on the client windows machine, (if the
program is there). This command line utility returns a string to standard
output. I want to capture the string and return it to the server and then
process it in some php (compare it to existing records in a mysql database.
and write it if new).
Once I have the string in php I can handle it from there.
I know this isn't strictly a php question, but I hoped someone could give
me pointers as to what techiques I might need to use so I can investigate
further, or suggest a more suitable forum for this problem ? At this point
I'm not even sure what subject this comes under !
Regards
Tony

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