system() function

How can i store into a string ALL of the data returned by a system command?

Thnaks

fLIPIS

Use the backtick: "`". As in

$allofit=ls;

No, i meant, how can i store the RESULT of a system operation into a string?

I use Win32 with apache and PHP 4.0.6

Say i want to do like:

ping 123.456.789.012

and store the result of the ping command on a string.

How could i do that?

Thanks

fLIPIS

Well, I dunno about Windows (would never consider using it for a server) but on linux it does exactly what you are asking about.

This code:

$ping_reply=ping www.host.com;
$sql="insert into pingtable (pingreply)
values ('$ping_reply')";
pg_exec($sql);

would do exactly what you think it should do. Remember, it's the "backtick", the button on the top left that also has the tilde on it: ~

-Ben

Wow. Thanks. Just what i wanted.