Running shell scripts on Redhat 9 thru PHP

[james_cwy]

Hi.I know this question has been asked before but I am a bit confused after reading their posts. I hope someone can give me a more direct and clearer answer to my question.

I know that we can call/run shell scripts from PHP using exec().But I am unsure how.
I hope someone can give an example.
Lets say I want to call/run "start.sh" at a certain directory.
How can I do this through PHP using exec?
Do I need to consider the location (dir) of the shell script?

Do you know of any resources/URLSs/tutorials that can help?

Thanks a million
James

[LordShryku]

You can check out the functions on php.net. But real quick, if your shell script was at
/home/james_cwy/test.sh

$script = "/home/james_cwy/test.sh";
$output = array(); // we'll use this to capture output. It's optional.
exec($script, $output);
print_r($output); // read the output.

HTH

[james_cwy]

Thanks a lot for the help.
Appreciate it