Using Passthru to execute external file

khairuddin

I wonder if the passthru function in PHP can be used to execute an external C++ file. Can a file such as .cpp, .h, and .c extension be executed in PHP through passthru function. I'm writing a PHP script and C++ coding. These C++ coding mainly used to process a binary data which i cannot process it directly via PHP. Please Help Me.

rrijnders

You can't use passthru() to "execute" your C++ source files. Your C++ source files have to be compiled into programs before they will do anything at all. Once you have done that, however; you can use passthru() (if you want the output of the programs to go straight to the browser) or the "backtic" operator (to return the output of the programs to a variable in your script) to call the programs from your PHP script.

For info on the "backtic" operator:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/language.operators.execution.php

For info on the passthru() function:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.exec.php