Posted by Mike Youell on 04/11/06 15:51

Hi Gerry,

Thanks for your help.

I piped the output to NUL and later to a file but it still didn't work.

I think it's an XP problem, probably to do with permissions or
something, but no log file info so it's just complete guess work.

I tried everything suggested on news groups (going back a few years)
and on websites, and asked a highly experienced friend yet nothing
worked.

So in the end I created a listener "process" (actually a 15 line DOS
batch file for now) external to PHP which listens for system events
triggered by PHP, i.e. PHP creates a file which the listener process
uses to call the relevant application. The file is deleted once
processed by the listening batch file.

I've put some simple handshaking in there so PHP can talk to the
listener process.

Anyway I've sorted it. Not perfect but then what is ;o)

Again, thanks for your help :o)

Mike Youell.

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