Executing a program through PHP

[scerm]

Hey i have been trying to make a server booking script, but there is a problem i have came across, if i was to execute the server program, the prograqm never ends writing so the page never ends loading, how can i just simply open up a program without attaching to it on php, simillar to simply double clicking?

[Kudose]

To use php to execute an external command, you can use [man]exec[/man] or [man]passthru[/man] or even the backticks operator ( ... ).

You state "without attaching to it on php" ...

What do you mean? Are you asking how to launch the program without using php? If so, it would depend on your operating system. You could use a batch or shell script to launch it or even set the application as a service that runs in the background all of the time on start up.

[scerm]

What i mean is, i want PHP to open a program, not open it and wait for its output to finish because if the program never finishes outputting code then the PHP will never finish loading also. Its ok anyways i figured something out, i made it open a batch file, the batch file would open the file i want and php would close the batch file again