Problem with popen, passthru, etc.

[polpus]

Hello,

 

I have a problem that I hope you can help me out with.

 

I have a file "a.out", which is a C++ program compiled with g++. I'm trying to execute that program from PHP and read the output, but to no avail.

 

This is my code:

 

$fp = popen("./a.out","r");
while (!feof($fp)) echo fgets($fp,1024);
pclose($fp);

 

I have tried replacing "./a.out" with "a.out", "/fullpath/to/a.out", etc... and nothing works.

 

Am I missing something or is it not possible to execute .out files from PHP?

 

Thanks in advance.

[discomatt]

I don't believe it's an issue with PHP, but your OS. If your os can't execute .out files, then they will not be executed.