Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/28/07 02:39

Vince Morgan wrote:
> "Daniel Klein" <danielk@featherbrain.net> wrote in message
> news:u89qm352ob3hep0heags7bd82q3seqcdjb@4ax.com...
>> I'm trying to get popen to work on Windows.
>>
>> Here's a simplified example of what I'm trying to get working:
>>
>> I have a hw.c program as follows:
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> main()
>> {
>> printf ("Hello World!\n");
>> }
>>
>> And here's the 'popentest.php' code:
>>
>> popen test...
>> <?php
>> $fp = popen('C:\\home\\bin\\hw.exe', 'r');
>> $data = fread($fp, 1024);
>
> 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()".
>

Not a problem. fread() can use the handle returned by popen() also.
See further down where there is an example of that.

>> 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
> HTH,
> Vince
>
>
>

Not knowing what hw.exe is doing, it's hard to say.

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