Posted by EF on 08/10/07 17:07

On Aug 10, 11:55 am, Good Man <he...@letsgo.com> wrote:
> "Tony B" <tag...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote innews:eL%ui.85399$tb2.29217@fe02.news.easynews.com:
>
> > 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 is not a PHP question, but here goes...
>
> You cannot have access to files (including executable programs!!) on the
> client's machine. Surely you can imagine the chaos if websites could
> execute files/take documents via the client's browser!!!
>
> That being said, you can probably do it with an Active-X application/plug-
> in solutions, but I don't really know much about that.

Dont use PHP for thing it was not designed for.

I`d consider 2 ways of solving that problem.
-Mentioned above ActiveX(unfortunately will work only with IE)
-Stand-alone server-client application:
client gathers info you want and sends it to the server which parses
data and writes it to the database.
If you`re not familiar with any programming language, i`d suggest you
www.autoitscript.com. Its free, easy and powerful.

try it ;]

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