PassThru()

[Anon]

I tried both of the following methods, but $html still got nothing!!
the exec() return true, the passthur() return false though.

ob_start();
passthru("php whatever.php");
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

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ob_start();
exec('php whatever.php')
$html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

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Any wrong for those codes?
Help please

[Anon]

could you please explain what the code is supposed to do? I might be able to help if i understood what each line is meant to do.

[Anon]

In summary, I want to run a PHP file first and store the output into the buffer so that I can get these codes as my html template and save my database in loading.

so I started to active the output buffer by
ob_start();
and then compiled my PHP file by using
passthru("php whatever_name.php")
It was supposed that the output should be stored in the buffer, so I used
$html = ob_get_contents() to get the compiled codes.
Finally, i closed it by ob_end_clean().

$html was supposed to have the compiled codes and I got nothing from it.

[[deleted]]

do you get any output when you leave the ob_* functions out? ie: does the passthru and exec work at all?

[Anon]

I dont know
I did try the following codes, but it still didn't work at all.
passthru("cp filename1 filename2");
no file has copied!!!

Any setting I have to set first?
Any wrong??

[[deleted]]

And the filename1 and filename2 are owned by the webserver-user?

have you tried

$output=ls;
echo $output;

[Anon]

i think the ob_* functions work just fine!
I did try what you posted and it showed the correct output.

i think the problem is in the functions
passthru() and exec().

Any suggestion?

I tried the following codes to compile my php file, it didn't work though.
at least the output buffer contained nothing.

passthru("php /directory/filename.php")
exec("php /directory/filename.php")