shell commands

[toshog]

how's everybody today?!

i have a problem passing commands to the system. i wrote about this before and then went back to php 4.3.0 which solved a lot of the php/openssl problems, but this one remains...

i'm trying to pass a command to the system like this:

$moo = zip 0041.zip 0041;
echo $moo;

another version with system():

$output = "zip 0041.zip 0041";
$moo = system($output);
echo $moo;

and yet another one with shell_exec():
$moo=shell_exec("zip 0041.zip 0041");
echo $moo;

well, non of those work. i have the file owned by the user of the server - php is compiled as module. and the directory where the zip file is supposed to be written to has the same owner... if i execute the exact same command on the command line it works as expected.
what else do i need to "turn on" so i can execute this command from the php script?

the OS is FreeBSD 4.6 and the php is 4.3.0....

thanks...

[ir4z0r]

append "2>&1" to your shell command
this will redirect the error output to standard and will be returned
from system()

$output = "zip 0041.zip 0041 2>&1";
$moo = system($output);
echo $moo;

[toshog]

ir4z0r,

thanks.. fugured it out... had to change permissions on a library zip needs...