Executing cvs commands in PHP (newbie)

[bobby_rahman]

hiya

I have cvs running on my Win98 machine. I want to call cvs log, cvs diff functions within an html page via php. Has anyone got any suggestions how to call these external functions.

I am having troubles getting exec() working so am now trying with system()....any traps waiting for me?

is there any documentation specific to CVS and php?

Thanks

Bobby

[bobby_rahman]

hiya i have this code below to execute cvs log within php:
//execute cvs log

$cvslogfixed ="C:/Program Files/GNU/WinCvs 1.2/cvs log ";
$logcommand="$cvslogfixed.$file";
$logfile=("C:/logresults/logresults.txt");
@ $fp = fopen($logfile, "w");
//open file for reading and writing the @ suppresses errors created by PHP
if (!fp)
{
echo "The log file cannot be located";
exit;
}
exec ($logcommand, $results);

fwrite($logfile, $results);

if (!fwrite($logfile, $results))
    {
    print "Cannot write to file ($logfile)";
    exit;
    }


while (!feof($fp))
{
	$results =fgets($fp, 100);
	echo $results;

}

fclose($fp);

The file is created but nothing is written into the file. My logic is every line created by $logcommand will be stored in $results. But how can I extract these lines into the $logfile.

Can anyone suggest a simple example to make sure exec command works with say a simple command like the msdos "dir"
which may help me to understand what im doing wrong.

Thanks for help in advance.