starting and stopping services with php

[glenwagley]

Hi,
I can't seem to figure out how to stop/start services using php. I have a web interface for a tool that needs to be restarted once changes are made to it. On my local machine, you simply type "net stop <service_name>" and the same for net start. I've tried using exec and shell_exec. Does anybody know how to get this to work with php and windows?

[mligor]

this is part of my code where I start and stop my MySQL database:

// first to check is mysql started or not

exec('net start', $b);
$mysqlStarted = false;
while(list(,$v) = each($b))
{
if (trim($v) == "MySql") $mysqlStarted = true;
}

//=== now start mysql
exec('net start mysql',$a);

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This work on my computer...

cu
Igor