how can i get information of perticular drive?

[truelygenius]

how can i get information of perticular drive?

[Wynder]

If you mean like size, usage, and information of that sort, you'll wanna use WSH VBScript.

[truelygenius]

Originally posted by Wynder
If you mean like size, usage, and information of that sort, you'll wanna use WSH VBScript.

i think you are not right ...

well i founded some codes for that but...

i have lost it.... php is great language and there are such codes....

🆒

[Wynder]

Well, okay..

You can run like exec() and actually run a DOS/*NIX command, capture the data, parse it, and try to spit it out, but that's really counter productive.

PHP is great for web and shell scripting, however, if you want detailed system information you can easily manipulate, you're going to wind up needing ASP/WBEM WSH VBScript.

[truelygenius]

Originally posted by Wynder
Well, okay..

You can run like exec() and actually run a DOS/*NIX command, capture the data, parse it, and try to spit it out, but that's really counter productive.

PHP is great for web and shell scripting, however, if you want detailed system information you can easily manipulate, you're going to wind up needing ASP/WBEM WSH VBScript.

can you give me example code?

[Wynder]

Check php.net...

You can do like this in *nix:

$result = exec("df");

Then, using regular expressions (preg/ereg functions), search for the volume, count the fields, and try to get the data that way. I wrote something we have in production here, but it's a holy mess, especially with linux because the empty fields register as nulls.

I honestly don't know of a DOS command that will get you the size of the hard disk as a whole... just the remaining size from like a DIR command.

[maxpup979]

Can you give us a bit more information about what it is you are looking at doing? You can use passthru to get drive info, etc, but there are also some other functions that might be useful

oh...and to use passthru:
<?php

$temp=passthru('ls -al');
print $temp;

?>

where ls -al is the shell command that I wish to invoke

[truelygenius]

Originally posted by maxpup979
Can you give us a bit more information about what it is you are looking at doing? You can use passthru to get drive info, etc, but there are also some other functions that might be useful

oh...and to use passthru:
<?php

$temp=passthru('ls -al');
print $temp;

?>

where ls -al is the shell command that I wish to invoke

i just want to information/list of directories of a drive [c:, d:]

of visitor / user

[Wynder]

Of a visitor? Nope -- can't do.

Of the machine it's currently running on:

$result = exec("dir c:");

echo $result;

[maxpup979]

Oh...thats a different story---you want the USERS drive info?....

I do not believe that is possible with PHP

[truelygenius]

Originally posted by maxpup979
Oh...thats a different story---you want the USERS drive info?....

I do not believe that is possible with PHP

i know its difficult let me research ?

just tell me how can i get info of local machine

[Wynder]

i know its difficult let me research ?

No, not difficult -- cannot be done in PHP. You need the administrator password or a user name with power user/administrator rights and that password. This is assuming they're running windows. Then you have to be running on IIS Webserver using ASP and the WBEM WSH object with a VBScript to pull the information.

There's simply no other way to do that over the web with conventional scripting languages.

As for the local machine -- I posted how.

[superwormy]

For the local machine, the answer is IN THE MANUAL:
http://us2.php.net/filesystem

For the remote machine... you CAN'T.