Posted by Daniel Klein on 12/23/07 14:43

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:06:32 +1000, "Vince Morgan"
<vinharAtHereoptusnet.com.au> wrote:

>According to the manual the file pointer that is returned by "popen()" can
>be used by the following, fgets(), fgetss(), and fwrite() whereas you are
>calling "fread()".
>
>> It works when I run this from a command prompt:
>>
>> C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\php>php popentest.php
>> popen test...
>> Hello World!
>That is because hw.exe is outputting to the consol when it runs I would
>think
>http://www.php.net/popen


Good catch. I changed the code to:

$fp = popen("cmd /c c:\\home\\cp\\hw.exe", "r+w");
$myline = fgets($fp);
pclose($fp);
echo $myline;

which envokes the program via 'cmd', but it still does not work in a
web browser :-(

I have already Google'd this to death and cannot find anything that
helps.

Daniel Klein

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