I uploaded a windows program (.exe) to my windows server. I now need to execute it and pass through a parameter using PHP.. how would i do this? On my computer i would just do this throught the command line, so i not sure how to go about this with PHP.. sorry if this doesnt make a whole lot of sense.. NOOB here..
here is the command i would enter on my machine to run it through the command line.
SCOT.exe -f "C:/GSdata/Scotbatchfile.tsv"
and ideas?
thanks
You will need to compile or allow the option to execute on the server with in php.
Check to see if php allow the exec command.
<?php
function exec_enabled() {
$disabled = explode(', ', ini_get('disable_functions'));
return !in_array('exec', $disabled);
}
?>You will need to add executable permissions to the file.
You can then:
<?php
exec("C:\\PATH\\TO\\FILE.exe")
?>Hope that helps, its not really a very safe thing to have enabled, do not allow users to pass directly to this command.
For more info check the php man pages.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
so will that function above enable php to execute on the server? sorry about this.. so will all i need to do is run that function to allow the php to execute the fuction?
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