Hi, Tried all that - it'd work well until one of the arguments also had spaces and thus had "" or '' encapsulating it - this weirdness is the reason for this post. Shawn, even the good old "C:\pathwi~1\gammu.exe" failed :-( The only way I've gotten it to work was to get rid of the spaces in the path/to/exe. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > >
