It looks like that will be the situation. Sad that exec() don't have that feature as an option. Maybe in the future :) Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free -----Original Message----- From: M.Sokolewicz [mailto:tularis@xxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:59 AM To: Frank Arensmeier Cc: Peter Lauri; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Catch STDERR you could instead use the proc_* functions to do this. However, seen as those are pretty complicated and were not available in most php versions ran by most hosts, a lot of people had to come up with other ways around it. The most used way is indeed what you described. A simple: $t = tempnam(); exec('/bin/SomeCommand 2>'.$t); $stderror = file_get_contents($t); is what most scripts seem to use currently - tul Frank Arensmeier wrote: > Spontaneously, my suggestion would to pipe the STDERR output from your > command to a file. I have to admit that this doesn't feel like the most > efficient solution since you would involve some reading / writing to > your filesystem. > > Regards. > //frank > > 17 feb 2007 kl. 21.49 skrev Peter Lauri: > >> Hi, >> >> I am executing exec('some cool command', $stdout, $exitcode); >> >> That is fine. I get what I in the beginning wanted. However, now I >> need to >> catch the STDERR that the command is generating as well. Some of you >> might >> tell me to redirect STDERR to STDOUT, but that is not possible as I >> need to >> use the STDOUT as is to automate a process. >> >> I know I can do fwrite(STDERR, 'Output some error\n'); >> >> So could I fread(STDERR, SOMESIZE)? >> >> Is there anyone with experience of best way of doing this? Should I maybe >> use proc_open or something similar and then write it to a file, and then >> read that file? Hrm, doesn't make any sense to do that. >> >> Best regards, >> Peter Lauri >> >> www.dwsasia.com - company web site >> www.lauri.se - personal web site >> www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
