system commnad

Anon

Hi:
How can I run Dos command with PHP. I have tried most of the code from http://bg.php.net
but non of them works for example:
make dir or delete file ....
Thanks Dean

gardner1

file and directory manipulation in PHP requires that you edit the Php.ini-dist/recommended file, and then save it as PHP.INI in your %sysdir%

normal stuff like date/time and the command dir to list contents is one thing...

// backticks
$date = 'date';
echo $date;

or
// passthru
passthru("date");

or
// system
$date = system("date");
echo $date;

all...
should work w/o directing the PHP.INI file, but when you start messing w/ file and directory management the PHP.INI file needs to know where everything is, and the defaults are all written with a bias toward Linux/Unix in otherwords ...

upload_tmp_dir= ./

is the default
you have to change it to:

upload_tmp_dir = C:\temp\

Make sure it is outside of the webtree if this is a prod machine 🙂 E.G., you would not want to set temp as C:\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs\temp

that would be bad 🙂

gardner1

BTW, I highly, HIGHLY suggest looking into the SAMS PHP and MySQL :Web Development or similar intro book 🙂

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672317842/102-0135417-9592938

lucianoes

I'm not sure that's what you want, but you can run commands using inverted quotation marks:

Windows:
c:\autoexec.bat;
c:\windows\calc.exe;

Linux
cal 2002;
mc;

    Luciano ES
    Santos, SP - Brasil

Anon

... you know you can use php functions mkdir() and unlink() etc on windows ??? anyway, for other stuff, system(), exec() etc should all work...

i.e.

<?
exec('ping 63.236.73.209',$yaks);
while(list($key,$var)=each($yaks)){echo "$key , $var<br>";}
?>

works fine for me on 4.06(2k) & 4.1.1(XP)