automatically downloading and installing an exe file

[dbphydb]

I need to automate the process of downloading and installing an exe file e.g. abc.exe from say 'http://10.34.45.21:8080/cruisecontrol/artifacts/xxx_trunk_nightly_build/xxx/test/'

I mean now i have to manually goto ''http://10.34.45.21:8080/cruisecontrol' then click on each folder before i finally click on the abc.exe file. Then it downloads the exe on my machine. Then i have to double click on the exe to install it. I want to automate this whole process such that when i run the script it will automatically download the exe file and install it. Is it possible to do this using php?

[chathura86]

as far as i know i do not think that it is possible because
allowing such will cause a serious security risk.

Regards

[dbphydb]

hi,

This wont be a securilty issue as the script will be given only to the team responsible for using this

[MrMancunian]

It can't be done by PHP. Try a script/application that runs at the client.

Steven

[Markus]

I believe the OP is speaking as if he is the client, and if that is the case, PHP could surely do this. Download the file with something like file_get_contents()[1] and then run the executable with something like exec()[2].

[1] http://uk2.php.net/file_get_contents
[2] http://uk2.php.net/exec

[dbphydb]

@Markus
i am basically from QA. So what we do each morning is open a web browser with the address http://11.12.13.27:8080/cruisecontrol. Then we click on the build with last nights date. Then we click on a folder say client. Then in that folder we click on an exe file say game.exe. Then we get a save dialog box to save the exe to our local machine (windows xp..not a home pc). Then we goto the place where we have downloaded that exe file, double click on it to start the installation and then start testing the application. This has to be done each day.

We want to automate this process such that when i run a script or smthing like that, it will automatically download and install the exe file.

Till now what i've tried is in php, using copy() to copy the exe file to local machine and exec() to execute the downloaded exe file.
Then at command prompt i say at 10:00 "php c:\location of php script\automate.php"
So at 10am the php script is run

I've tried this using a static location say 'http://winzip.com/winzip1.2.exe" and it worked fine. I will only have to generate the file path now.Also not sure if it will let me using copy() on cruisecontrol. Is there any easier way of doing this???