running a windows command line from a web page

[veedub]

Hello!

 

  I have a web page on an intranet, i need to run a command in the local windows run from the webpage. for example when you press a button button on a webpage it has the same effect as running cmd from the run prompt on the local machine. Anyone know how to do this?

 

cheers.

[matto]

Something like this should do the job.

 

$cmd = "del old_file.txt";
system($cmd);

 

The above example would remove a file named "old_file.txt". The above assumes the file is in the same directory as the PHP script. Of course the script would need the right permissions to remove the file....