when dealing with windows.. or any file/pathname.. you can't simply quote/double quote the name using the "~" symbol as well.. haven't done it for awhile.. but i believe you need to explode/derive the complete path/filename and then quote/double quote it for use by the app... -----Original Message----- From: luke@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:luke@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kyohere Luke Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:48 PM To: Shawn McKenzie Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Re: Problems with exec() on windows You might have something there - never really thought about how windows forms the 8.3 names... & not many resources online about it ... The actual path is "c:\Program File\Gammu 1.23.91\bin\gammu.exe" I'd used "c:\Progra~1\Gammu~1\bin\gammu.exe" Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Kyohere Luke wrote: > > 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 :-( > > Well, you didn't do it properly then. What is the actual path? > > > > > 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 > >>> > >> > > > > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > > -- > 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
