hey... if you're going to deal with file/pathnames in windows/linux.. you're going to have to encapsulate them with "" or with '' ie double/single quotes... -----Original Message----- From: Kyohere Luke [mailto:luke@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: Bastien Koert Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Re: Problems with exec() on windows Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert <phpster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has >> spaces in it.... >> Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. >> >> I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does >> proc_open >> separate the arguments from the command? >> >> Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other >> process) is not treated like an argument. >> >> If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. >> >> Luke. >> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >wrote: >> >> > Kyohere Luke wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. >> > > >> > > This works from commandline: >> > > >> > > C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text "test1 test2" >> > > >> > > But if I run it through php like this: >> > > >> > > $command = "\"C:\path\to\gammu.exe\" --sendsms EMS 200 -text \"test1 >> > > test2\"".; >> > > @exec($command, $response, $retval); >> > > >> > > This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. >> > > >> > > If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes >> > were >> > > omitted, it works perfectly. >> > > >> > > If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it >> fails >> > > again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double >> quotes. >> > > >> > > I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added >> > around >> > > the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. >> > > >> > > Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms >> > with >> > > spaces in it. >> > > >> > > Any ideas? :-( >> > > >> > > Luke >> > > >> > >> > Why not try: >> > >> > $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text "test1 test2"'; >> > >> > -- >> > Thanks! >> > -Shawn >> > http://www.spidean.com >> > >> > -- >> > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >> > >> > > try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are > spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names > > -- > > Bastien > > Cat, the other other white meat > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
