Running application in php

[mmarif4u]

I tried to open a exe file in php,but got the error msg from the if statement:

<?php
if(exec('C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe')){
    echo "run";
}else
{
    echo "error";
} 
?>

mean that the command i am running is wrong.

Any ideas?

[DyslexicDog]

Try this, post your new output.

 

<?php
if(exec('C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe', $output)){
    echo "run";
}else{
    echo "error";
    } 
echo $output;
?>

[DarkWater]

The spaces are messing it up.

exec("'C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe'", $output)

 

[DeanWhitehouse]

change the spaces to

%20

[DarkWater]

@Blade: Nope.  That's not it. =X

[libertyct]

wow thats cool. i didn't know you could actually do that from a website. but how secure is this? this means anyone can run any program on my pc from their site?

 

 

[DarkWater]

You hardly want to do it unless you need some sort of functionality that you'd rather not code by hand in PHP, like ls | grep 'something'.

[mbeals]

it might be a permissions thing.  Does the user that php/apache is run under have permissions to execute that file?

[mmarif4u]

Output is:

errorArray

 

[DyslexicDog]

Try this then.

 

<?php
if(exec('C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe', $output)){
    echo "run";
}else{
    echo "error";
    } 
print_r($output);
?>

[mmarif4u]

the same output:

errorArray ( )

 

really annoying this thing is now.

working on it from last night.

[DarkWater]

You tried my solution (the new quotation marks)?

[mmarif4u]

Yup:

<?php
if(exec("'C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe'",$output)){
    echo "run";
}else{
    echo "error";
    } 
print_r($output);
?>

same result:

errorArray()

[DarkWater]

Does entering:

'C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe'

At the command line work?

 

Also, try:

$exec = "'C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe'";

if (exec($exec)) {

...

}

else {

...

}

 

Someone had a problem like that and I told them to try it and it worked.  I don't know why, honestly.

[mmarif4u]

just tried from command,and it works fine.open the application.

tried your new code:

$exec = "'C:\Program Files\FileZilla Client\filezilla.exe'";
if (exec($exec)) {
echo "ok";
}
else {
echo "error";
}

Throwing the error.

[trq]

Is this filezilla thing a gui based application? You won't hgave much (any) luck getting anything other than command line applications to execute.

[mmarif4u]

yup,its gui based application.

[DarkWater]

Oh yeah, I completely forgot to look at the application name.  You need to run a command line application to get it to really work.  Why do you want to open Filezilla like that anyway?

[trq]

Then theres your problem. I'm not a windows user but I doupt apache has permssions to open any gui. Are you running this php script via apache?

[mmarif4u]

@DarkWater: Actually i am running this for test.that just choose filezilla from c drive to run.

@thorpe: Yup,PHP script is running via apache.

Ok,in brief:

I make a script for our client,for whom we buy a dedicated server running debian on it.

That script will send sms to the client when there is overflow by some level in the real monitoring sensors.Now

i cron that file to run after 2 minutes,if there are some values in the table which are greater than the mentioned level,so pick the

specific data and send them to the client.

Now the server is difinitly running LINUX,so i have to run it under linux.

Now WHY i want to run a application through that script,i want to pass some arguments to new script(maybe in c or c++) to accept entries and then send that entries to client.the another script is used for sending sms and recieving arguments from the 1st script.

So the another script will run,which will then pass the data to a GSM modem,and modem will send sms.

IS there any better idea to do this.

So mean job for this script is to run a application OR script in other lang and pass them some arguments.

 

[DarkWater]

But it's not a GUI, right?  Just a C++ program?

[mmarif4u]

As i mention,i am running now a gui just for test.

But i am sure later i think will use some other lang script to use.and i hope our another programmer has a script in C++ for GSM modem to send sms.

There are also other ways to send sms,i am just learning and working on it.to find a better solution for it to send sms.

Two ways i know are:

1) use any other site as Gateway

2) Or use the mobile operator as email reciepionest like:

1234566@vodafone.com

 

 

[trq]

Sounds like exec is the way to go, you just can't open gui applications with it and really, whats the point? Theres no one there (at the server) to see them.

 

Linux programs execute without issue.

[mmarif4u]

Haha,yup thorpe you are right there is no one to see the program.

i have  simple idea about a java file in linux based distro by using exec in php.

like:

<?php
exec('java -Xmx32m -jar "/home/blahblahblah/mydomain/testjava/Test.jar"');
?>

And i hope C,C++ will be the same.

How to pass arguments in it,any idea.

[allenskd]

Hmm.. you can't really launch applications (like mentioned above) although you can pretty much do all the commands command prompt allows

 

Example

<?php
// output netstat
$e = exec('netstat -n',$out);

var_dump($out);
// stops and starts mysql service
$n = exec('NET STOP MYSQL',$out2);
$n = exec('NET START MYSQL',$out2);

var_dump($out2);
// your system's information, takes a little while and uhh.. only for windows
$system = exec('systeminfo',$info);

var_dump($info);

 

hope that helps!