send variables to cmd php file

[The Little Guy]

I have a php file that uses the command line to run (cmd). When a particular area of my loop is reached, I want to use exec to run another php file in a new cmd window.

 

My Question:

is there any way I can pass variables to the cmd sort of like $_GET? These variables would then be used in that second php file.

[mikesta707]

There is an array called $argv that you can use to access arguments passed via the command line. For example if you did the command

path/to/php/test.php chocolate 276 "killer tie, dude!"

 

and in that page you had a line

print_r($argv);

 

it would output something like

Array
(
    [0] => test.php
    [1] => chocolate
    [2] => 276
    [3] => killer tie, dude!
)

 

notice that the script name is the first parameter, always

 

there is also a variable $argc which is the count of the array $argv.

 

 

[The Little Guy]

Sweet thank you!

[The Little Guy]

Is there anyone to keep the code going that ran the exec?

 

I notice that if I have that, it waits till my other code is finished before it continues.

 

When working with linux, I could just do this:

> /dev/null 2>&1

 

It would then run the file, and not wait for the exec to complete it would continue execution of the current file and the other file would just finish when it is done...

 

Make sense?

[The Little Guy]

anyone?

[mikesta707]

I'm not sure, but i read this on the PHP manual

Note: If a program is started with this function, in order for it to continue running in the background, the output of the program must be redirected to a file or another output stream. Failing to do so will cause PHP to hang until the execution of the program ends.

system()

[The Little Guy]

anyone know how to do that on windows?

[trq]

cmd > out.txt

[The Little Guy]

Nope, that didn't work...

 

Here is what I have now:

system("C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c php C:\php_files\id3.php 525 > C:\php_files\out.txt");

[trq]

Nope, that didn't work...

 

Thats helpful. What didn't work? The file didn't get written too? Your script didn't run? Your script waits for system to finish?

 

 

[The Little Guy]

probably should have said...

 

My script waits for system to finish.

[The Little Guy]

Any other suggestions?

[lemmin]

Have you tried using shell_exec() instead of exec()?

[The Little Guy]

It still does the same thing, just sit and waits till its done.

[The Little Guy]

Any other suggestions?

[RussellReal]

not sure if this will work but try this:

 

<?php
  $shell = new COM('WScript.Shell');
  $shell->Run("cmd /c php whatever/blabla.php flags");
?>

 

again not sure if it will work, just giving a suggestion, I know for a fact though that the script doesn't hang whatsoever with COM objects, so if it does do what its supposed to it should be a pretty good solution.

 

~~~

 

Tested and Works Have fun dude