Silent System?

[Garethp]

I have EasyPHP running on my Windows Machine, and I'm running a program that goes through a folder, goes into the subfolders and uses the rar command with WinRAR to create a cbr (comic book rar) file, but I have alot of files to go through, and it's a pain in the ass trying to do stuff with the command line popping up every few seconds. Is there anyway to do a system() but silent, so it runs in the background?

[trq]

& puts a process into the background.

 

system('command &');

[gizmola]

& puts a process into the background.

 

system('command &');

 

Hehe, don't think that will work on windows though.

[Garethp]

Unfortunately Gizmola is right. Is there any version of that for Windows?

[trq]

Take a look at the START command, this really has nothing at all to do with php.

[Haberdasher]

I've had success with the exec() function on Windows servers. The only caveat is the the app being executed has to be in the same dir as the PHP that is executing it. There may be a setting that can be adjusted to get around that though.

 

Here's a bit of code I use to run a python app.

 

$command = "\"scan.py\"";
print $command;
print exec($command);

 

Hope that helps.

 

-Dave

[gizmola]

Nobody said that exec doesn't work, what doesn't work is using unix process control to background a process, as in thorpe's example.

[gizmola]

BTW, as usual thorpe pretty much knows everything ....

 

On windows ... "start program"  is apparently functionally equivalent to unix... "program &"

 

 

[trq]

BTW, as usual thorpe pretty much knows everything ....

 

Pfff. I'm just not too lazy to use Google every now and then.