run another php file please help

phpcnewbie

Hi,

I would like
-to execute another php file from within
another php file and have it run in the background
-I would also like to send the other execute file some variables
-if the php file does not execute properly I would like to have it return some error

I have tried a simple example first
exec("secondfile.php") just to see if it would work but it does not.

I actually want to do something like
exec(secondfile.php $var1 $var2 &)

how do I do this?

thanks in advance 🙂

Kudose

What about include. I am not sure how to execute variables but I know include('filename.php'); will run in the background.

mogster

Well, if you want to truly run the other script in the background, that means it's gonna do some big job?

Because if you include it, it'll prevent the rest of the scriptexecution (below the include) for as long as it takes to execute the background job. So be sure to include it at bottom.

Else if you really want to run the job in the background, you could use iframes loading a standalone script with the batch job. The main script would then print the iframe-tag and the rest of the page, leaving it to the iframe to fetch the separate file and exec it. And you may send GET-vars to the iframe by echoing:

<IFRAME WIDTH=50 HEIGHT=80 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 HSPACE=0 VSPACE=0 FRAMEBORDER=0  BORDERCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\" SRC=\"batch_job1.php?var_1=$var_1&var_2=$var_2\"></IFRAME>

Just drop the code inside a <TD></TD> or something - iframes are very handy.

knutm

superwormy

exec ("wget http://localhost/MyScript.php");

Would something like that work? You can't return values really from that... unless you had MyScript.php write to another file, write a 0 or a 1, then read that file in and see what it returned?

Hope that helps...

PyroX

Ok, this is just a quick example....

FILE MAIN.PHP

FILE SUBPROC.PHP

$response=implode('',file("http://localhost/path/script.php?var1=value&var2=vaue2"));

Then communicate with the parent via javascript:
<Script>
parent.formname.responsecode.value='<? echo $response; ?>';
parent.formname.submit();
</Script>

So then MIAN.PHP would get the return value submitted as a form var.

abnfire

try passing vars in get vars way like this:
http://localhost.com/MyPage.php?var_name=VarValue&var_name2=value&var_name=Another_value

each var is separated with (&).
each var as value with the name(var_name=value)
equal (=) is must use to separate the name and the value.