Executables in PHP

[Yves Peysson]

Hi,

I want to execute shell command in php. I tried successfully the following:
<?php
$output = `ls -al`;
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>

However when I want to launch an application like
<?php
$output = `open /Applications/myApplication.app`;
?>

Nothing appears while when I type open /Applications/myApplication.app in
the Terminal window, myApplication is launched properly.

I have the same problem with a cli application passing parameters:

<?php
$output = `./myApplicationcli param1 param 2`;
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>

I see in the web browser that the application run, but nothing is saved !
while in terminal, the application works fine

Thanks for helping me

[Andy Hassall]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:28:28 +0100, Yves Peysson <pe*****@drfc.cad.cea.fr>
wrote:

I want to execute shell command in php. I tried successfully the following:
<?php
$output = `ls -al`;
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>

However when I want to launch an application like
<?php
$output = `open /Applications/myApplication.app`;
?>

Nothing appears while when I type open /Applications/myApplication.app in
the Terminal window, myApplication is launched properly.

I have the same problem with a cli application passing parameters:

<?php
$output = `./myApplicationcli param1 param 2`;
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>

I see in the web browser that the application run, but nothing is saved !
while in terminal, the application works fine

PHP runs under the web server process, which will have a different environment
and permissions to your terminal.

Check PATH, environment variables, and filesystem permissions.

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