Posted by panda31 on 09/18/07 09:52

On 18 sep, 10:25, Vik Rubenfeld <v...@mindspring.com.invalid> wrote:
> I'm developing a web site in PHP for an Apache server.
>
> I have a particular stand-alone application that takes a text file as
> input, and produces a text-file as output. It's usually run from the
> Unix command line. I'd like my PHP code to provide the input text file,
> run the stand-alone application, and then read the output text file and
> reformat it for display on the site.
>
> Is there a way for my PHP app, to cause this Unix command-line
> application to run?
>
> Thanks in advance to all for any info.

Hi,

I suppose you work with a LAMP configuration so, to execute on your O/
S an application, you must use system() or exec() functions.
Take care about input! If you use directly data from user input, think
about escaping them.

More information: http://fr.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php

Ciao

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