exec() doesn't show anything on the screen, I don't think...
You'd have to echo implode('', $output) to show the results on the
screen...
On Tue, November 28, 2006 5:37 am, Edward Kay wrote:
> As a check, does 'apache2ctl graceful' actually output anything to
> STDOUT? I
> would expect your exec commands to work - try with something like 'ls'
> or
> 'whoami' and see if you get any results that way.
>
> Edward
>
>> I have been trying to figure out how to use exec to run some
>> commandline
>> scripts (some perl scripts & mysql in this case) WITH the output
>> of the commands
>> run via exec being shown on the screen.
>>
>> neither of these examples have the desired effect:
>>
>> $output = array(); $exit = 0;
>> exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit);
>>
>>
>> $output = array(); $exit = 0;
>> @exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit);
>>
>> please someone tell me there is a decent way to do this (something
>> to do with STD input/output redirection or something?) and that
>> I'm not left
>> with trying something like:
>>
>> ob_start();
>> $output = array(); $exit1 = $exit2 = 0;
>> @exec('apache2ctl graceful', $output, $exit1);
>> ob_end_clean();
>>
>> ... of which I don't even know if it would work.
>>
>> anyone care to share their clue?
>>
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