How to get output (using php) of shell command from unix server to browser

[balas1]

hi

i need to execute unix command from browser. but i cant get any output in my browser side..
need to enable anything to execute unix command from browser using php

my coding is

<?php
 
$output = exec('ls -lart');
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
echo exec('whoami');
 
?>
 

i am geting empty output only..
please give solution this

Thaks
bala

[Atli]

Hi.

The exec() function will only return the last line of output. To get the entire output you can specify an array reference as a second parameter.

For example:

<?php
    exec('ls /', $output);
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($output);
    echo "</pre>";
?>