You can also put an "@" before the actual DOS command to suppress it's
output ("@dir *.txt"). Between that, using the "@" on you PHP command
and "> NUL", I'd think you could get it to be quiet. Sorry, don't have
time to test this for your ight now. Let us know what you find.
-TG
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul J. Smith [mailto:pjsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 6:16 PM
> To: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG)
> Cc: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Prevent error output from shell_exec
>
>
> I'm calling ps_exec.
>
> $handle = popen($cmd);
> $read = fread($handle, 2096);
> echo $read;
> pclose($handle);
>
> Does nothing whereas system($cmd) or shel_exec($cmd) works fine, apart
> from the output. $read outputs nothing when I tested it.
> When calling
> popen, can you pass program parameters such as "dir *.tmp /p" ? Maybe
> this is why it's not working. The $cmd I call has rather a lot of
> command line parameters to go with it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) [mailto:B.A.T.Svensson@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 22 May 2004 22:59
> To: 'php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx '
> Subject: RE: Prevent error output from shell_exec
>
> I can guarante you that popen() does work - I use it myself
> on a win2003
> server. Since you can use shell_exec() I assume this has nothing to do
> with
> safe_mode being switched on.
>
> How do you call popen() ands what kind of dos program are you calling?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul J. Smith
>
>
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