Thanks Paul for your response. my issue is not just reading from the output text file. But my issue is what I would do in the php script while the program is execting( i.e after issueing shell_exec() command) and how would i know that file has been written so that i can read it using php. Thanks pscott wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 21:42 -0700, makhan wrote: >> Now after my >> program has written its output I want to read this text file from php and >> send it back to the browser. >> Can someone please guide me how I can do this. > > This seems like an overly complex way of doing something that sounds > quite simple, but anyway, you can use fopen() to open up the resultant > file and do what you need with it. > > http://www.php.net/fopen > > --Paul > > > All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer > http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/uwc2006/content/mail_disclaimer/index.htm > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Program-Execution-and-reading-results-tf3956489.html#a11228521 Sent from the PHP - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
