How do I call a program from PHP

TedH

Hello,

I have an ASP program I would like to call from a PHP page and once the ASP is complete, return control back to PHP.

In ASP I would use Server.Execute. Is there something like this in PHP?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

jerdo

I believe execute() is what you are looking for.

TedH

I've tried the

<? exec ("news.asp"); ?>

but that does not seem to work. I looked up some information and found passthru, but that doesn't seem to be the right answer either.

Any help or examples would be GREAT!

Thanks again!

-Ted

mothugz

Originally posted by TedH
I've tried the

<? exec ("news.asp"); ?>

but that does not seem to work. I looked up some information and found passthru, but that doesn't seem to be the right answer either.

Any help or examples would be GREAT!

Thanks again!

-Ted

Might help if you try...

<? exec("/path/to/news.asp"); ?>

<? exec("asp_parser_program.exe /path/to/news.asp"); ?>

by the way, i don't know jack about ASP to give you ultra-specific details 🙂

hand

fopen("http://localhost/where/ever/news.asp","rb");

TedH

Thanks to everyone that offered input!

The solution I ended up with is

<?php
readfile('http://www.someplace.com/page.asp');
?>

This is not the greatest solution becuase I have to call a page on my own server rather than running ASP right from PHP, but it works.

If anyone knows of a better way, please post.

Thanks!