passthru output

[richie]

I need to run a linux command via php and display the output in a browser.

<?
passthru('/home/user/qmHandle -R > output');
header("location:./output");
?>

The above code is supposed to run qmHandle and write the output to a file "output".

It works fine, but it only writes the last line to "output".

However, when I run qmHandle directly at a terminal, it outputs several hundred lines to screen.

How can I capture all of the output, instead of just the last line?

Thx.

[sneakyimp]

not sure at all, but maybe this would work?

<?

$output = array();
exec('/home/user/qmHandle -R', $output);
echo implode("\n", $output);
?>

[redrage]

the reason its happening is because of the > since the passthru does one line at a time it passes each line to the > and the > over writes the file and puts the current line in.

change the > to >> and it will append the file. The problem with that is that the next time you run the same passthru it will append to the file again leaving previous data. if you are set on using exec's and passthrus...

<?
unlink('/home/user/output'); // this will delete the file
passthru('/home/user/qmHandle -R >> output'); // this will create a new one
header("location:./output");
?>

[richie]

redrage you're absolutely correct.

Thx.