Launch BAT File with Parameters

[mboucher]

Hi,

 

Is there a way to launch a BAT file with PHP and also pass it parameters based on user input in form boxes?

 

Thanks,

Michael

[corbin]

http://php.net/exec

 

 

Edit:

 

Actually, you might should use shell_exec.

[mboucher]

 

Actually, you might should use shell_exec.

 

Don't think I'm understanding it correctly...

<?php
$output= shell_exec('test.bat');
echo $output;
?>

 

Should execute test.bat, which simply creates a new folder.  But when I open the page, no folder is created.

[laffin]

u may want to be shure its being called

 

<?php
echo getcwd() . '/test.bat does ' . (is_file('test.bat)?'':''not ') . 'exist.';
?>

[mboucher]

u may want to be shure its being called

 

<?php
echo getcwd() . '/test.bat does ' . (is_file('test.bat)?'':''not ') . 'exist.';
?>

 

 

This just returns a parse error?

[laffin]

Yeah, its top of my head coding.

I missed a end quote

<?php
echo getcwd() . '/test.bat does ' . (is_file('test.bat')?'':''not ') . 'exist.';
?>

 

if it exists, than ya may want to check safe mode in php.ini and disable it or create an executable dir so php can run external apps

 

 

[mboucher]

Yeah, its top of my head coding.

I missed a end quote

<?php
echo getcwd() . '/test.bat does ' . (is_file('test.bat')?'':''not ') . 'exist.';
?>

 

if it exists, than ya may want to check safe mode in php.ini and disable it or create an executable dir so php can run external apps

 

Thanks, but still getting a parse error

[mboucher]

if it exists, than ya may want to check safe mode in php.ini and disable it or create an executable dir so php can run external apps

 

safe mode is also off

[mboucher]

I've got it to work with..

<?php
echo exec('cmd /c test.bat');
?>

 

But...

I am unable to pass parameters to it.  If I hard code them in, it works fine, but I am trying to submit them from a form, and it loads filename.php?Parameter1=a&Parameter2=b

 

So my code is:

<?php
echo exec('cmd /c test.bat $Parameter1 $Parameter2');
?>

 

But this doesn't seem to work?

 

 

[laffin]

question: what is this batch file supposed to accomplish that php can't?

u can create a temp batch file within php, if u really needed to. Bypassing the need for sending parameters to a specific batch file.

 

[corbin]

Or you could just do what ever the batch file does in PHP.

 

 

As far as I know, there isn't anything a batch file does that PHP can't.

 

 

By the way, the cmd /c probably wouldn't be needed with shell_exec().

 

 

Anyway, it looks like your code is relying on register_globals, and that setting is just straight up evil when set to on.  Find a tutorial on $_GET.

 

Short explanation:

 

somepage.php?foo=bar

 

$_GET['foo'] would be "bar"