EXEC family functions

sandeepshinde

I am trying to use system or exec function to execute a date command, my safe mode is off but still it is giving me the following error

sh: /date: No such file or directory

code used

<?php
echo system('date');

Please let me know the solution if this is a bug

NogDog

Sounds like the webserver user running your PHP scripts does not have a path environment setting pointing to whatever directory the date command is in on your host. You may have to give it the full path, something like:

echo system('/usr/bin/date');

Of course, you could do the above entirely within PHP using the [man]date[/man] or [man]strftime[/man] functions.

scrupul0us

NogDog wrote:
you could do the above entirely within PHP using the [man]date[/man] or [man]strftime[/man] functions.

agreed since either will return the time on the webserver

sandeepshinde

NogDog wrote:
Sounds like the webserver user running your PHP scripts does not have a path environment setting pointing to whatever directory the date command is in on your host. You may have to give it the full path, something like:
echo system('/usr/bin/date');
Of course, you could do the above entirely within PHP using the [man]date[/man] or [man]strftime[/man] functions.

I have tried using this code also but still the issue persist, and i am going :mad:

NogDog

Note that I'm just guessing where the date program would be on your host. It might be something like /usr/sbin/date, /etc/bin/date, and so on.