writing a script's output to a file

shara

Hello there,

I have a problem with writing the output of a script into a file.My script takes the input from a different (second)script and should call another (third) script by giving the input from first script to the third.And the output of the third script should be redirected to a file.

I've used the following code in my program

header('location:full_report_exporting.php?test_runid='.$test_runids[$i][0]);

The above code worked well but its giving output on the screen which i dont want.I want to redirect the output to some file.

For that i used shell_exec function as shown below but i'm not getting any output into the xls_files (file name).

		shell_exec("full_report_exporting.php?test_runid=".$test_runids[$i][0]." -nolog > xls_files/".$project_name."-".$test_run_names[$i][0]."-".$date."-Full_Report.xls");

Can anybody please help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
Shara.

big_nerd

If you want to export to excel, have you thought of Reading up on the Excel stuff from pear?

http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

Above is the link there. It can output to Excel, and its not too difficult to use.

As long as you can send the information (via multipul variables, or array) to the next script then this can definately output to Excel and Automatically Send to the user (should you chose that).

big.nerd

shara

Hello,

But i dont want to export to excel.The full_report_exporting.php itself generates an excel file which i want to store in a directory whose name is xls_files with the name as given in the code before in shell_exec function.I think my shell_exec() function is not working properly.Is this the correct way to use it?

		shell_exec("full_report_exporting.php?test_runid=".$test_runids[$i][0]." -nolog > xls_files/".$project_name."-".$test_run_names[$i][0]."-".$date."-Full_Report.xls");

Do you suggest me to use any other function to redirect the output of full_report
_exporting.php to another directory.