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Markum
Markum

Reputation: 4059

Running a Python script on a PHP server

I am running a nginx web server, along with PHP-CGI.

I would like to know if it is possible to execute a Python script inside PHP pages, allowing both languages to be combined. I've attempted it briefly but it didn't work, so I'm not sure how I would do this. Here are the two files I used:

index.php

<body>

    <p>Hello! Here is a message: <?php exec('python hello.py'); ?></p>

</body>

hello.py

print 'Hello World!'

Any clues would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 6335

Answers (1)

Matt Dodge
Matt Dodge

Reputation: 11142

exec will return the output of the shell command, but you still need to echo that to the page. The following code should work for you

<body>

    <p>Hello! Here is a message: <?php echo exec('python hello.py'); ?></p>

</body>

Upvotes: 4

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