[RESOLVED] running executable files with php

[designxperts]

Is it possble to run an executable file using php? I made a quick search a found the exec() function but i didn't quite understand it??

[devinemke]

designxperts wrote:

Is it possble to run an executable file using php? I made a quick search a found the exec() function but i didn't quite understand it??

what did you not understand about [man]exec[/man]?

[designxperts]

well what i'm trying to do is that i want to run an executable file directly from the php source to run on the server .
for ex. on windows
I want to run calc.exe ??

[thorpe]

What did you not understand about [man]exec[/man]?

[designxperts]

what i understood is that exec() takes a command so what would the command be if i wanted to open for ex. calc.exe?
Also what i didn't understand is the second parameter :[, array &output [, int &return_var]]
what could that be used for?

[designxperts]

i figured it out after i got into linux and understood the commands better