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running perl in php

Question posted by: ogo796 (Member) on May 8th, 2008 03:27 PM
hi everyone

i am running ubuntu and all my scripts are in php,i have a program
written in C and Perl that do a specic job in my site.so my problem is i can't run that specific program while i am out site the directory.

can someone help me with a php code that can run the program that is out site the current working directory.i use the following code but nothing happend.

$output=exec(/home/data/test make.pl )
shell_exec("cd /home/data/test make.pl ");

make.pl is the script that i want to run.
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gnawz
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44 Posts
May 10th, 2008
08:31 AM
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Re: running perl in php
Quote:
hi everyone

i am running ubuntu and all my scripts are in php,i have a program
written in C and Perl that do a specic job in my site.so my problem is i can't run that specific program while i am out site the directory.

can someone help me with a php code that can run the program that is out site the current working directory.i use the following code but nothing happend.

$output=exec(/home/data/test make.pl )
shell_exec("cd /home/data/test make.pl ");

make.pl is the script that i want to run.

Why do you run the program outside the directory?It is just a series of code and I bet you want all your code to be executed!
Put it in the same directory and then run a shell script.
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dlite922
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562 Posts
May 10th, 2008
08:38 AM
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Re: running perl in php
Quote:
hi everyone

i am running ubuntu and all my scripts are in php,i have a program
written in C and Perl that do a specic job in my site.so my problem is i can't run that specific program while i am out site the directory.

can someone help me with a php code that can run the program that is out site the current working directory.i use the following code but nothing happend.

$output=exec(/home/data/test make.pl )
shell_exec("cd /home/data/test make.pl ");

make.pl is the script that i want to run.


shell_exec() should work.

Yours doesn't because, CD is a command and MAKE is a command.

did you try this

shell_exec("/home/data/test/make.pl");
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realin
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May 10th, 2008
06:03 PM
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Re: running perl in php
i bet shell_exec() should solve the purpose
cheers !!
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