Posted by Good Man on 02/03/06 19:56

"jonathan.beckett" <jonathan.beckett@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1138970152.834117.49630@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> Hi all,
>
> We have PHP 4 installed on Windows 2003 with Apache 2, and the
> shell_exec has mysteriously stopped working - it hangs the page rather
> then returning anything.

hi

try using backticks:

ln 1:$myCommand = "some code that will do things on the server";
ln 2:`$myCommand`;

instead of
ln 2:shell_exec($myCommand);


the backtick thing has worked for me in all instances where shell_exec,
exec have not.

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