Posted by Henk Oegema on 10/10/07 06:59

J.O. Aho wrote:

> Henk Oegema wrote:
>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> Henk Oegema wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> You would need to use
>>>
>>> export day=`php /path/to/yout/file/uptime.php`
>>>
>>> if you use it this way, you need to make the script to take arguments,
>>> so that
>>> you can get the day, hour and minute alone. Don't forget to echo about
>>> the value.
>> Can you please be a little bit more specific. It's not quit clear to me.
>> Why (and how) must the script take arguments?
>> The values of the 3 variables are already known to the script.
>
> As you can't export three shell variables at the same time, you require to
> set them one at the time. If you still want to output all three at the
> same time in the php script, then you need to use awk or another string
> manipulating command and in which case it's less overhead to make a shell
> script that does all itself.
>
>
>
Please Aho see my reply to Jerry.
With awk I can get my dial plan working. :)

But I want to learn how to do it with a php script.

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