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Deyan Georgiev
Deyan Georgiev

Reputation: 339

PHP exec doesn't return output

I've a program which must be runned from cmd.exe and be supplid a few parameters. The command looks like this:

query.exe USERNAME PASSWORD WMI_QUERY MACHINE

This program is working fine. But when I try to run it from PHP with the following code:

function execute_query($ip, $username, $password, $query){

    $runCMD ="query.exe " . $username . " " . $password .  ' "' .$query . '" '  . $ip;
    echo exec($runCMD);
    print_r ($stdout);
}

I don't get any output. It says that the process terminated successfully, but nothing else, although the program runs and returns the output successfully. I'm using windows and XAMPP with php 7.1 I tired using shell_exec, but didn't have any luck. Any other ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 550

Answers (1)

Felipe Valdes
Felipe Valdes

Reputation: 2217

I usually simply use:

passthru("the_command 2>&1");

the 2>&1 bit is to redirect STDERR to STDOUT, which is where your output probably is, when the command fails...

Upvotes: 1

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