system()

[one]

Hello!

Could you please help me. I need to use system() command in php. I vould like to execute psexec.exe in the same dir as http dir. I use win xp and apache.

in dos prompt this looks like this:

psexec \10.12.0.44 -u perft -p z44kjl ipconfig

\10.12.0.44 -u perft -p z44kjl ipconfig are arguments for this file.

so if I do:

system("psexec \10.12.0.44 -u perft -p z44kjl ipconfig") ;

it doesn't work...All i get is executed psexec without arguments

Help me!!

Thx..

[pskZero7]

Hey,

Maybe it's because backslash () is the escape caracter, thus when you write "\ xxxxx" the string is interpreted as '\ xxxxxx'.
In fact th first backslash introduces an escape sequence and the 2nd backslash is THE caracter to be escaped.
So all you have to do is to add another backslash:

system("psexec \\\\10.12.0.44 -u perft -p z44kjl ipconfig") ;

To be fully convinced, try

echo "psexec \\10.12.0.44 -u perft -p z44kjl ipconfig" ;
//and then:
echo "psexec \\\\10.12.0.44 -u perft -p z44kjl ipconfig";

you'll see exactly what is really being executed by system().

[pskZero7]

Note : I did not use the

 tag in my post above because this makes the code inside parsed and highlighted, and so \\ is changed into \ !!!

[one]

Thx, it's working....🙂