launch php url from batch file

[NetRoam]

Hi there!

I'm having somewhat of a problem. I have an FTP-server running where I receive files approx. 5-10 times a day. I'm using Bulletproof FTP-server for that ... Anyway, I wanted to have the system let me know when a new file was uploaded by e-mailing me about it, but there's no such command in Bulletproof FTP.

Taken that aside I thought about making a short PHP-script that would mail me about it, but that means having to run a batch file every time a file was uploaded in order to let the PHP be executed.

I made the FTP-program parse out the actual filename and file size of the uploaded file which I put into the batch file like this:

execute.bat %FILENAME %FILESIZE

That would give me this command when executed:

execute.bat 20040924080752140.txt 218

The problem though occurs when I want the actual batch file (execute.bat) to start a web-browser parsing the two values mentioned above. I tried the following (content of execute.bat):

start [url]http://*site*/mail.php?filename=%1&filesize=%2[/url]

But for some reason it returns with this message when executed:

F:>start [url]http://site/mail.php?filename=20040924080752140.txt[/url] & filesize=218
'filesize' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

The problem here being that the dos-prompt for some reason makes 2 spaces after the filename and 1 space after the &.

Is there a way to start the browser from dos-prompt without getting those spaces inbetween the values?

Thanx in advance!

/// NetRoam

PS: The command worked perfectly fine before I decided to parse the filesize as well (&filesize=%1), but it's necessary for me to use the filesize, so I know exactly in the mail what the file is called and how big it is. Any help is appreciated! Thanx

[Weedpacket]

First thing I did when I encountered this was - after trying the usual (e.g., trying to escape them with '\', which was silly since interal Microsoft political squabbling back around 1982 saw this getting used as the path separator) - going to the Windows documentation. There's a search feature, and I entered "ampersand". The command shell page looked like the one I was after.

Notes:
The ampersand (&), ..., are special characters that must be preceded by the escape character (⁾ or quotation marks when you pass them as arguments.

So that's what they use....

[NetRoam]

Never mind you guys! I figured it out!

execute.bat just looks like this now:

start [url]http://*site*/mail.php?file=%2-%1[/url]

And when I start the PHP-script I just explode the parsed variable (218-20040924080752140.txt) that were sent into 2 variables using this:

$file  = $_GET['file'];
$pieces = explode("-", $file);

$filename = $pieces[1];
$filesize = $pieces[0];

And then I'm all set to use the filename and filesize to whatever I need!

This was just to inform you all of how I solved my problem. I don't know if someone will ever need it, but it's nevertheless here for people to read 🙂

/// NetRoam

[goa103]

Thanks for that killer tips of the day ! Preceding & by ^ works like a charm.

[LoganK]

NetRoam wrote:

Never mind you guys! I figured it out!

I'm going to upload the following file:

sales-data.doc