Grep password from OS file showing up in PHP script

[seamusmacspud]

Folks,

 

need a bit of help/guidance !

 

i have created a php script that allows me to display concurrent requests running in an ORacle 11i environment.

 

Within script I create a variable called 'appspassword' and use a system call to grep password from an OS file. I then pass this variable to a OCI logon and it executes my sql fine.

 

My issue is that the $appspassword is displayed on the webpage which is not want I want. how can I set avariable like appspassword and not have it showning on page ?

 

here is my code snippet

 

 

<?php

$appspassword = system("grep -m 1 password /u01/PROD1/prod1ora/iAS/Apache/modplsql/cfg/wdbsvr.app |awk '{ print $3 }'");

$connection = OCILogon("apps", "$appspassword" , "PROD");

 

help greatly appreciated

[trq]

Use exec() instead of system.

[seamusmacspud]

Use exec() instead of system.

 

Legend, thanks thorpe.I dont know php very well but that did what i was looking for...thansk again