getting exec() to run in Windows

Anon

Am i correct that this will only work when php is installed as cgi?

What?! That would suck.
The following returns no errors but also doesnt do anything. Try it.

If i run it from command line or...
in ASP it works fine.

Please... Any thoughts?

Thank you.

<?php
echo("begin");
$cmd="c:\ImageMagick\convert.exe";
$params="-geometry 200x200";
$files="c:\media\george.jpg c:\media\george_tmb.jpg";
echo("<BR>".$cmd." ".$params." ".$files);
if(is_executable("$cmd")){
passthru($cmd." ".$params." ".$files);
echo("<br>good gravy");
} else {
echo("<br>no success");
}
echo("<BR>end ");
?>

Anon

if i can't execute the shell command in php can i somehow execute a few lines of vb?

<%
dim cmd, WshShell
cmd = "
c:\ImageMagick\convert -geometry 200x200 c:\media\george.jpg c:\media\george_tmb.jpg"
set WshShell = Server.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
retCode1 = WshShell.Run("cmd /c " & cmd)
set WshShell = nothing

%>

ugh!
or can i configure iis to allow the module to execute shell scripts?

~ patrick

btanner

instead of answering your questions (cause I don't know) -- I'll point out a potential problem.

"\" is the escape character... so if you want to describe windows paths in php.. either use "\" or put the whole string in single quotes '' because they do not evaluate the escape character.

That might help.

$cmd="C:\dir\to\prog\prog.exe";

Anon

you can execute an asp page and print its contents within a php page by doing the following :

<?
$file = @fopen("http://someurl.com/somepage.asp","r");
if ($file) {
while (!feof($file)) {
$buffer = fgets($file, 4096);
//now print out contents
print($buffer);
}
fclose($file);
}
?>

although the proper solution to your problem would be to use COM