Why can't I call "lynx" in PHP?

[radeon]

A normal command

$ lynx -source "http://www.yahoo.com" > yahoo.out

works well under shell, but when I put it into PHP codes like

<?php
system("lynx -source \"http://www.yahoo.com\" > yahoo.out");
?>

only can I get the content as ": No such file or directory".

How to solve this problem or is any there alternative way?
I don't want to use "wget" cause it doesn't support cookie.

Thank you!

[amcgrath]

Do you want to only store the source in a file If that's the case, why not try file(http://www.yahoo.com) or any of theother file functions.... (I get the smae error as you do above, and don't really know why).

[radeon]

Some web pages can not be stored by using PHP built-in functions and all of them do not support cookie.

[Anon]

okay, without any experimenting i would try:

1. full path /usr/bin/lynx
2. making sure your dir is writable. i always use /tmp for that, so lynx -source http://foo > /tmp/bar

those are just the first things off the top of my head.

frymaster

[amcgrath]

Let me know what you finally end up with. I'd like to know what the solution is.