Curl w/ exec()

Anon

I am able to succesfully run curl from the command line:

returns the html of the page. However, I am unable to run it from with a script. The code:

exec("/usr/bin/curl http://www.phpbuilder.com",$return_message_array, $return_number);

does nothing. The array appears to contain no data. In fact, changing the path to the curl makes no difference. Ie. it does nothing regardless if I use /usr/bin/curl or /not/where/curl/is.

Any ideas of what to look for?

Thanks,

Michael

maxholman

You will need to use the PassThru() function instead of exec()

exec() only returns the last line of output from a command, which more often than not is a line feed, or nothing at all.

PassThru('/usr/bin/curl http://www.phpbuilder.com',$ret_val)

maxholman

Ignore that last reply...

I just read the manual and it looks like I have been talking out of my arse again.

Anon

LOL Macks

You can do this for shell commands.

a$ = /usr/bin/curl http://www.phpbuilder.com

Note: Those are backtick's, not apostrophe's. The backtick is on the same key as the tilde(~).

This should set $a to an array of all of the output lines of curl. I don't know what curl does so I hope this helps.

Anon

If you are in safe mode, make sure to set safe_mode_exec_dir to the path where your curl executable is.

Mike

mike wrote:

I am able to succesfully run curl from the command line:

curl http://www.phpbuilder.com

returns the html of the page. However, I am unable to run it from with a script. The code:

exec("/usr/bin/curl http://www.phpbuilder.com",$return_message_array, $return_number);

does nothing. The array appears to contain no data. In fact, changing the path to the curl makes no difference. Ie. it does nothing regardless if I use /usr/bin/curl or /not/where/curl/is.

Any ideas of what to look for?

Thanks,

Michael