Run a script from within a script

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I am writing a script 'stockAvailibilty.php' that creates a spreadsheet of stock availability from a MySql database.
But the MySql database needs updating from a MsSql database first, and
I have a script that succesfully does this 'updateStockLevel.php'..
So what is the best way to run 'updateStockLevel.php' from 'stockAvailibilty.php'
prior to the rest of the script executing.
I prefer not to use 'include' because they both share similar classes and functions that will cause a redeclaration headache.
Also it needs to allow time for the MySql database to finish its UPDATE

[pimmy]

Have you thought of calling a procedure from your PHP script which will first update the database and then get you the data?

Cheers,
Pimmy

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Updating the MySql DB from the MsSQl is quite complex, involving calculations and multiple SELECTs.
updateStockLevel.php achieves this but needs to remain as a standalone because this is a seperate script running on a scheduled task.
I don't want to copy all this code (200 lines + mutiple class and function includes) in to stockAvailibility.php because it would need some re-writing.
I just want to run updateStockLevel.php from stockAvailibility.php.

[pimmy]

Then would this work for you:

shell_exec('php updateStockLevel.php');

Cheers,

Pimmy

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Thanks pimmy I will give it a try.
After some Googling I had a look at exec() and system() but didn't seem to be suitable.
There is also a bit of HTML using the src tag <src="updateStockLevel.php">
which I thought was interesting.
Only ever used exec() to run a mysqldump command so I wasn'.t sure how to achieve this.