Executing external applications from PHP

[Anon]

Hi!
I've got a problem while trying to execute external application from PHP installed on a machine with IIS 5.0.
The script:

<?
system("test.bat");
?>

returns following error:

Warning: Unable to fork [test.bat] in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\t.php on line 2

It looks like PHP cannot run ANY external program (EXE, BAT, etc.).

Does somebody know the solution for this problem?

Regards,
Marek Matula

[Anon]

Now, this kind of $&//*** happened to me as well the other day. Reading and reading, i saw that on Win32 is not possible to execute anything apart from PHP. I read that this bug has been fixed on PHP 4.0.8., but i didn't download to look at it.

fLIPIS

[Anon]

$pp=popen('start c:\path\to\test.bat','r');$pclose($pp);

is worth a go - got it from the GTK mailing list when I had a similar issue