Posted by Tony B on 08/14/07 17:23

"EF" <venetian5@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1186765623.759005.111530@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> 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 ;]
Hi I tried a different news server and saw this reply.

The reason I'm running with php/mysql/apache is I'm a little familiar with
it. The rest of the site is fine in p/m/a. I just wanted to see if I could
do this one thing. I could ask the user to run the program and copy the
result into a form etc, but I was hoping to do something that was neater.
I have seen websites that use java/javascript that actually can read the
hard disk, list folders/files etc on the client machine just to show how
much a website could find out about you and your pc !

Thanks
Tony

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