Other scripts and php, a que..

[Anon]

Hello! I am trying to execute a script from php, here is my current code:

#do math to get mileage
#parse ZIPMATH stuff
$output = system("./zipmath.cgi DIST $dbentry[1] $to_zip");

$values = split(" ",$output);

This works fine and dandy, but I want to be able to hide the output, NOT print it. Can you tell me how to do this?

-Josh

[thepriest]

Look at the exec($command,$output) function.
Takes 2 args, command to execute
and an output var.

The output is returned in $output, which is an array.
1 element for each line of ouput.