Running a windows bat file from PHP

[wmeredith]

Hey guys need help with running a windows bat file from php. 

 

Thanks!

[requinix]

What have you tried?

[wmeredith]

$cmd = 'c:\test.bat';

exec($cmd);

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$cmd=("c:\test.bat")

function execInBackground($cmd) { 

    if (substr(php_uname(), 0, 7) == "Windows"){ 

        pclose(popen("start /B ". $cmd, "r"));  

    } 

    else { 

        exec($cmd . " > /dev/null &");   

    } 

} 

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exec('C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe' /c START 'C:\test.bat')

[requinix]

The first one seems fine. What happens when you try it?

The second one is missing a semicolon and has a tab character in the filename.

The third one has syntax errors.

[wmeredith]

Actually this worked;

 

<?php

exec('c:\\folder\\whatever.bat');

?>

 

Now I actually want a trigger in MYSQL to execute the php file after an INSERT of a certain table. 

 

Have any ideas? 

[requinix]

MySQL can't do that. Make your code execute that file after it does the query.

[wmeredith]

Thats what I finally decided to do, wrote my own code to execute the bat file. 

 

Thanks