assign variable to output of system

[Anon]

Hi all,

I have run into some problems assigning the output of a system command to a variable with PHP.

$var=system("whois site");
echo "var is: $var";

returns:
output from whois followed by var is:

$var appears to be empty.

Any ideas???

[amcgrath]

have u tried redrecting the output to a file then reading the file? That should work.

[Anon]

I managed to get it sorted out using popen and pclose...

Thanx for your response

[paulblo]

I ran into the same problem.. What did you do to return the whois info as a variable?