QuoVadis

Thinking about this some more, it could be that the problem exists when you allow users to enter the filename of the exe in a form. That wasn't what I intended doing but I can see how that would be a massive issue.

Thanks for your prompt reply. As I understand from my currently limited knowledge, there are potential security issues with using the exec() functions? That's the bit I am concerned about. Cheers

Hi all. First post in these forums. I am an experienced C/C++/Java/C# programmer but have never done any web development. I have a pretty basic question about running executables on a server via php. I gather this is not a good idea, basically. I have some (large-ish) programs written in C that I would like to execute and get the results into a browser. Is there a 'safe' way of doing this? I would really rather not reimplement my programs in php if I can possibly avoid that.