PHP receiving EOF

[yendor]

This is kind of complicated, hope it makes sense. I wrote a PHP script that stores some information in a file. Then my PHP script runs an Expect script I wrote that reads the file into an array and passes the information to an x3270 host via s3270. If I run my Expect script from the command prompt it runs through and works fine. If I run the Expect using PHP it quits in the same place every time, BEFORE the script is finished. It's like the Expect is sending PHP and eof(end of file) before it finishes. I've tried popen,exec,system, and passthru, they all quit in the same place. Is there any debugging I can turn on to see the communication between PHP and the script? Or any other suggestions.

Thanks in advance,

Rodney

[Anon]

Are you using windows or unix?
When you run your php script, are you doing so from a web interface (ie, through apache or IIS) or from command line?
If you call your php script from the command line:

php.exe <you script name>
does that work? If it does, the answer may lie in the permissions of the user running the script. In other words, when apache and IIS webservers execute a php script, they give that script www-user access, which may need to be modified to include access to the Expect script.

Hope this helps...

[yendor]

You hit the nail on the head! The file my php script was creating wasn't giving permissions to expect when it's envoked from PHP. Unfortunatly I figured it out before I got to read this, but I really appreciate the response.

Thanks again,

Rodney