How to pass a variable from PHP to a program?

hawk72500

Hi Guys!I am a newbie in PHP and that'smy first problem:
I have made an html form with a textbox.Somebody writes there a value (something like 11) and when he clicks submit button then the number passes to a php page.There i try to pass that value to a visual basic program with something like(without sucess):

.html
<input type="text" name="value">

.php
$cool=$_GET["value"];
exec('c:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c START c:\serial.exe $cool');

serial.exe is my vb program
value my variable and i use php5 Apache2 and Windows2000
I take the variable in the vb program through command line with the command Command().
Can anyone help me?I am desperate!!!!!!!!!!Thanks and sorry for the number of words but i tried to be specific!

dyntryx

I've never tried doing that, but the variable won't be processed unless you use double quotes.

Remember, if you do this:

$cool = 'woo';
echo '$cool';

You get: $cool

If you do this:

$cool = 'woo';
echo "$cool";

You get: woo

The quotes are important, so I would try:

exec("c:\\WINNT\\system32\\cmd.exe /c START c:\\serial.exe $cool");

Just a suggestion though, I haven't tested it.

hawk72500

Thanks for reply!

hawk72500

Thanks very much dyntryx! That is the correct answer to me problem!I tested your suggestion and it worked!In fact the solution for passing variables from command line to a program through PHP is the following code which i rewrite it here in case other people will have the same problem:

<?php
exec("c:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c START c:\yourprogram.exe $firstvariable $secondvariable");
?>

Thanks very much those who writed something but special memorize to dyntryx