Hi, Shawn and all:
I tried to run the script using the method you suggested for Windows, but it gives me this:
'http' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I could telnet and ping to the server using #80 to where the script calculate.php is located, though. Do you or anyone else on the list might tell me why I cannot execute the script through this method?
Here is my calculate.php, if it is of any help to you for troubleshooting:
<?php
// For PHP 5 and up
$file="http://www.mysite.com/lung.txt";;
$handle = fopen("lung.txt", "rb");
$contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
fclose($handle);
$count = count(explode(" ", $contents));
echo "<p>There are <b>" . $count. "</b> words in <b>" . $file . "</b></p>";
?>
Thanks in advance.
Alice
======================================================
Alice Wei
MIS 2009
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx
________________________________________
From: Shawn McKenzie [nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:43 PM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: exec() Error
Wei, Alice J. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have got a task from my client asking me to build something that allows the variables in the PHP file passed to another PHP file or a file in a different computer language to perform some operations on another remote machine. According to my client, he calls this behind the scenes to avoid users screw up the front end, and I am hoping that I can produce one single script, and have it execute some script without the user pushing any button. Has anyone tried using exec() successfully in PHP to execute files from PHP or other programming languages? For example, C, Python, or Perl.
>
> I have tried this by putting in
>
> exec("http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php";);
>
> This is the error I got:
>
> Warning: exec() [function.exec]: Unable to fork [http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php] in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\read.php on line 31
>
> I have checked my permissions, and I have set it to 755.
> Does anyone know how I might be able to correct this error?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Alice
> ======================================================
> Alice Wei
> MIS 2009
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
> ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx
Well, whatever OS you use, try typing that at the command line and see
if it works. That's what exec does in effect.
Linux:
$ http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php
Windows:
C:\> http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php
-Shawn
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