execute php from the command line

marian

hi all,

i am trying to execute php from the command line, and then send the output to a file; but somehow i am getting the output to be empty;

here is snippet;

<?php
$file='test.php'
$out='new.txt'
'php $file > $out'
?>

when i look at the file new.txt, it is a blank page; any thoughts on how this is happening.

thanks

Weedpacket

Why are you putting the command line inside the PHP script?

TruckStuff

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Why are you putting the command line inside the PHP script?

Agreed... I don't think you understand what you are asking for. Assuming you are in a *nix environment, you could accomplish this with the following:

$ php test.php > out.txt

marian

of course i understand what i am asking, maybe you guys have never done it before; but all i want to do is execute php within my php script;

i think i will need to do some thing like this:

<?php
$file='test.php';
$out='new.txt';
exec("/path/to/php $file >$out");
?>

Weedpacket

Oh, so you're wanting to run PHP from within PHP, rather than running it yourself from the command line.

What you've got looks about right. here is something I put together when I was generating and syntax-checking code on the fly (I've got the code coming from a file there, but the real code was a bit more elaborate, so the posted code is still a bit more elaborate than strictly necessary for what it does).