Parsing results of passthru()

[Anon]

Howdy.
The server I use doesn't have sablotron or the xslt stuff installed, so I'm using Saxon via passthru like so:
passthru ("java -classpath $javadir com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet $xmldir/$file.xml $xsldir/$sheet.xsl");
Would there be any way to parse php tags in the result? Possibly using backticks instead?
Thanks in advance.

[jordan]

passthru() doesn't return anything -- it simply displays the raw output of the command. That is to say PHP doesn't have any idea what data it returns. There are five other ways in PHP to execute programs, including backticks. Read about them here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php

And if you have some PHP code in a string and want to evaluate it, use eval().