[SOLVED] system command dump

[jaymc]

I am running a php script via the command line, for example

 

php -f script.php

 

However, it is forcefully outputting the return of the command, without me echoin it etc

 

Here is script content

 

<?
        $command = "/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest";
        $result = shell_exec($command);
?>

 

I want $result to contain the output from the $command, at the moment, it does not and the output from the command is forcefully dumped

 

In the manual, it is meant to output the return to the given VAR. This is not working. I have tried system, exec, passthru

 

They all do the same

 

Any idea why?

[trq]

<?php

        $command = "/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest 1>/dev/null";

        $result = shell_exec($command);

?>

[jaymc]

Did not work, it still outputs it without an echo, and, $result does not contain the return or any value

[trq]

What does the output look like?

 

Maybe you need to redirect stderr and stdout.

 

<?php
        $command = "/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest &> /dev/null";
        $result = shell_exec($command);
?>

[jaymc]

That stopped it from forcefully outputting, but did not send the output to the VAR

 

<?
        $command = "/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest &> /dev/null";
        passthru($command, $result);
echo $result;
?>

 

The output of $result was "0", not sure why as the reuslt of the command is "Syntax OK"

 

Any more ideas?

[trq]

You might try using exec() instead.

[jaymc]

None of them work.. tried them all.

 

I could use ob_start(); but Im not running it in a browser to flush the raw output to a VAR

 

Command line based

[jaymc]

Any ideas?