On 1/25/2011 9:05 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
Dear list -
I have a program with the following statement: $out = system('ls -l',
$retval); The output is a string. How do I format the output to be in
the Linux format, that is in columns. I cannot think of a way to use
explode to do it.
Advice and comments, please.
Thanks
Ethan
MySQL 5.1 PHP 5.3.3-6 Linux [Debian (sid)]
Well, depends, are you running this in a browser or at the console?
If you are displaying this in a browser, you are probably seeing that
browsers do not like \n (newlines)
If in a browser, you could:
1) Wrap your output in a <pre><?php echo $out; ?></pre> HTML tag
2) Use PHP's nl2br() to replace all newlines with "<br />" tags
3) Use PHP's header() function to tell the browser to display the output
as plaintext. i.e. header('Content-Type: text/plain'); [1,2]
1 - Google "php header plain text"
2 - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#92620
If in cli... well, you wouldn't be having this problem... :)
Jim Lucas
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