Saving output in a variable

[alexskulmowski]

Hallo,

I need to get the output of a script, save it in a variable, and print it. Which functions do I need to do this, I have searched the php manual but I haven't found anything usefull.
Can you help me?

Alex

[mikefn]

hmmm ... I suggest you to read about file handling subject which include:
fopen, fclose, fread, fpassthru, fputs and fwrite

[taddis]

You could use exec() function like this:

$arr = array();
exec('ls -la', $arr);
print_r($arr);

The specified array will be filled with every line of output from the command, like this:

Array
(
[0] => totalt 288
[1] => drwxr-xr-x 3 xxx users 4096 21 jun 2002 .
[2] => drwxr-xr-x 9 xxx users 4096 21 jun 00.01 ..
[3] => drwxr-xr-x 2 xxx users 4096 11 jun 10.27 CVS
[4] => -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx users 206 5 feb 14.46 GUI404.class.inc.php
)

[alexskulmowski]

Thank you for your fast answer!
I'll try the file functions, I always thought that they cannot open files from another server.

[alexskulmowski]

Oh, that's also good. But isn't this solution slower than the file functions?