Posted by Geoff Muldoon on 09/21/05 05:28

noone@nowhere.com says...

> Very new to the world of php and still slightly struggling with concept that
> its running on the server side (slow learner :O) ). My question is this, is
> it possible to run an exe on the clients machine from a php script that is
> on a web site, say if I wanted to automatically start say a game exe that
> the visitor to my site had downloaded and installed previously. Can that be
> done?

Run a .exe file on *my* machine when I visit a web site? HAHAHAHAHA!

If that could happen what would there be to stop you from, say,
reformatting my hard drive.

A java applet, weeeell just maybe in highly controlled circumstances.

Geoff M

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