Start external program (winamp)

[Miarmi]

Hello

I'm just a begginer and I'd like to ask you more experienced one thing:

I have my own PHP/apache/mySQL server at home with public IP address and I have my personal page there. I wan't to have a button (input type button) and a PHP function -> onClick start external program and end srcipt. I've tried do it with Exec and fopen functions but it freezed and didn't run the program

Could somebody please write me a small srcipt for (I have PHP home edition default set up) it.

Thanks for any useable help.

Miarmi

[robin_percy]

I played around with this a bit yesterday (substituting wmplayer for winamp), but couldn't quite get it working as a web script. However, the following script did work when executed from the command line:

<?php

exec('"C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"');

?>

So I'm guessing the problem has to do with opening a windows app from inside the Apache process. If I have time, I'll play around with it some more later.

[bradgrafelman]

As robin said, there's probably an issue of the Apache child process attempting to run another program, probably also as a child process. I know on Unix you can fork programs into the background using the '&' sign or using something like 'nohup', though I'm not so sure on the Windows implementation of this.