Hi,
I'm trying to output a text file from a pdf file using an external function,
pdftotext, using either PHP's 'passthru' or 'exec' functions.
The following code sort of works (at least I see localhost busy doing
something for about three seconds, but the expected output of 'content.txt'
is empty. I used an idea found on the mailing list: I actually got some
activity with 'sudo desired_function arg1 arg2'.
File permissions are set wide open (apache:apache 777), safe_mode=off.
What am I doing wrong? (Btw, the pdftotext function works fine on
commandline).
<?php
$currentPdf = "2005-01-v2.pdf";
//print "$currentPdf";
if (file_exists($currentPdf)) {
passthru("sudo /usr/bin/pdftotext /var/www/html/2005-o1-v2.pdf.txt
/var/www/html//current.txt");
}
/* Also tried the following using 'passthru' then 'exec':
$pdf = file_get_contents($currentPdf);
//print "<br><br>$Pdf";
passthru("sudo pdftotext /var/www/html/2005-o1-v2.pdf.txt
/var/www/html/current.txt");
*/
$current = "current.txt";
print "<br><br>Current Text: $current";
$string_text = file_get_contents("current.txt");
$new_text = nl2br("$string_text");
?>
Any help, pointers, admonitions gratefully accepted,
Tia,
Andre
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