Can PHP interface with command line?

[shelbytll]

Hi can PHP interface with command line?
If i want to enter some command line from PHP, how do I do it?

[s_shrum]

Yes. Although I haven't done this personally, I have read many posts that indicates that it does.

Call the PHP.exe from the folder from where you installed it. Pass the script filename that you want php to run (I'll go as far as to assume that it would be like calling Perl from the command line).

[Mordecai]

The function I believe you are looking for is shell_exec():
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php

[s_shrum]

Actually, yeah... what he said.

Mine refers to using PHP directly from the command line.

Sorry about the mixup

[marque]

Yeah, if you want to simply echo the result directly on the screen use system(), eg system('ls -l') will echo the directory the script is running in.

alternatively if you want the last line of the command as a result you can declare as a variable use $variablename = exec('ls -l') or what ever your command is. There are a few more functions that work really cool, one of them puts each line into an array i think, but i have never used it.