Capturing Program Output Under Windows

Anon

I have been trying to capture output
from an external program under Windows 2000 Server running PHP Version 4.0.4pl1, but I have not been having any luck. Any ideas?


<?php

// This could be "dir", a program name, etc.:

$Command = "echo It works!";

// None of these seem to do what I wanted:

$Result = passthru($Command) or $Result = "None! &quot;\$Result = passthru(\$Command)&quot; did not work!";

echo "<P><SPAN CLASS=\"Bold\">\$Result:</SPAN> $Result</P>\n";

$Result = system($Command) or $Result = "None! &quot;\$Result = system(\$Command)&quot; did not work!";

echo "<P><SPAN CLASS=\"Bold\">\$Result:</SPAN> $Result</P>\n";

$Result = `$Command` or $Result = "None! &quot;\$Result = `\$Command`&quot; did not work!";

echo "<P><SPAN CLASS=\"Bold\">\$Result:</SPAN> $Result</P>\n";

?>