run python script from php page

[Lassie]

I need to execute a python program called from inside a php web page.

the web page runs without errors and the python script will run from a terminal but the two together dont dance.

Any help would be welcome.

php

<?php
/* 
 * Template Name:message
 * 
 * 
 */
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>

		<div id="container">
			<div id="content" role="main">
                <?php
			/* Run the loop to output the page.
			 * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
			 * called loop-page.php and that will be used instead.
			 */
			get_template_part( 'loop', 'page' );
			
			//get  message
			//print_r($_GET);
			//echo "<br />";

			//$message= $_GET['message']; Will be appened to $command
			$command= "/home/pi/sense-test.py";
			exec($command);
			
			echo $message;
			echo "<br />";
			echo "Message Recieved";
			echo "The time is" . date9"h:i:sa");
?>
                        </div>
                </div>
                
                
                

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Python

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from sense_hat import SenseHat

sense = SenseHat()

sense.show_message("Hello World")

[Lassie]

Please note this should be titled run PYTHON script from php webpage 

Apologies

[ginerjm]

Let's clarify things a bit.  There are no PHP webpages.  Web pages are basically HTML.  So is your question really "how to run a python script from a PHP script"?  And did you try googling THAT question?  I did and found several responses.

[Lassie]

Yes you are right it is how to run the python script from a php script that happens to be a wordpress web pgae running on an apache server.

Yes I have tried googling and my latest effort is 

$command = escapeshellcmd('/home/pi/sense-test.py');
$output = shell_exec($command);
echo $output;

I get no output.

I have checked permissions to make it executable.

My thinking now is to move the file to the Apache folder and work from there.

[ginerjm]

I have no idea how to do this but this google hit shows some other stuff to do:

 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32598420/cant-execute-python-script-from-php-document

[Sepodati]

It may be executable, but is it executable by the user PHP (really Apache) runs as? Typically www-data. And does that user have access to that directory?

Edited October 15, 2017 by Sepodati