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Juliano Lima
Juliano Lima

Reputation: 721

Start a program from PHP

I'm trying to do this: system("cmd /c C:\test.txt"); I already tried exec("C:\test.txt"), exec('"C:\test.txt"'), but nothing is working, some tries the script only keeps loading and some tries he loads but no returns! I'm thinking that is permissions problem..

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3936

Answers (1)

Lohardt
Lohardt

Reputation: 1045

You can create a .bat file and use this:

openfile.bat

start notepad "myfile.txt"
"myshortcut.lnk"
exit

PHP

exec("C:\openfile.bat")

Source: Open text file and program shortcut in Windows batch file

EDIT Unfortunately i cant test this right now but if you want the process to run in the background this might do the trick in both windows and linux:

function execInBackground($cmd) { 
    if (substr(php_uname(), 0, 7) == "Windows"){ 
        pclose(popen("start /B ". $cmd, "r"));  
    } 
    else { 
        exec($cmd . " > /dev/null &");   
    } 
} 

execInBackground(start /B openfile.bat);

source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

also try:

exec("start /B C:\openfile.bat");

and I found an other stack question regaring the same: How do you run a .bat file from PHP?

Upvotes: 4

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