Open file on hard disk ?

[Anon]

Ive searched the archives and didnt see much on this...

I want to execute a file on a users hard disk (such as notepad.exe) from a script on a server (such as http://www.something.com/open.php). How can i do this with PHP ??

Thanks

[kaizix]

i'm not sure you can (it would be a MAJOR security issue).

[Anon]

PHP does not excute client side code. Since it is a server sided language all run time is done at the server level.

Yes this can be done with javascript but it is consider a security risk to do so.

[Anon]

I realize the security risk, do you know how to do it with javascript ?