Need Help with executing this code in php..! urgent.. help plz.

[dawg00]

The following code is working in the command line(have installed xpdf)

#pdftotext /var/www/kweb/a.pdf /var/www/kweb/testFile.txt

 

but when i try to run it with this code in php file its not working

 

<?php

$file=$_POST['file1'];

echo $file;

 

exec ("pdftotext $file '/var/www/kweb/testFile.txt' "); //line not executing

exec ("tr -d '\012' < '/var/www/kweb/testFile.txt' > '/var/www/kweb/tf.txt' ");

php?>

 

 

Plz help me, it urgent..

THnaks a lot

[kenrbnsn]

Why do you have single quotes around the parameters within then exec() statements? You don't have them when executing from the command line.

 

Ken

[dawg00]

exec ("pdftotext $file /var/www/kweb/testFile.txt ");

even this does not work..

[kenrbnsn]

When you run the script via a web site, the user it's running under is usually "apache" or "nobody" and this user may not have this command in it's path. Put the fully qualified path in the command.

 

Ken

[dawg00]

//tried even this  :'(

//did not work :'(

<?php

 

$file="/var/www/kweb/a.pdf";//full path

 

exec ("pdftotext $file /var/www/kweb/testFile.txt ");

 

exec ("tr -d '\012' < '/var/www/kweb/testFile.txt' > '/var/www/kweb/tf.txt' ");

 

php?>

 

[kenrbnsn]

No, the full path to the pdftotext command.

 

Ken

[dawg00]

exec ("/usr/bin/pdftotext /var/www/kweb/a.pdf /var/www/kweb/testFile.txt ");

 

still not working!

[kenrbnsn]

Change

<?php
exec ("pdftotext $file '/var/www/kweb/testFile.txt' ")
?>

to

<?php
exec ("pdftotext $file '/var/www/kweb/testFile.txt' ", $output, $ret);
?>

and see if any errors are returned in the $output variable.

 

Ken

[dawg00]

<?php

exec ("pdftotext $file '/var/www/kweb/testFile.txt' ", $output, $ret);

echo "output=$output";

echo "ret=$ret";

 

?>

i got this..

output=Array

ret=2

[kenrbnsn]

Since $output is an array, do

<?php
echo '<pre>' . print_r($output,true) . '</pre>';
?>

 

Ken

[dawg00]

got this as the output...

 

Array

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