Coolbreeze
Coolbreeze

Reputation: 947

Antivirus integration in PHP

I want to integrate antivirus plugin in my code ( To check the files when users are uploading or downloading, Like yahoo mail). How do we integrate an antivirus component inside PHP? Any ideas or help would be appreciated. Thanks a bunch.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 5158

Answers (2)

Femaref
Femaref

Reputation: 61467

Get yourself an antivirus that is runable from the console, and use the shell_exec function to execute it, analyse the returned output.

Upvotes: 2

Gordon
Gordon

Reputation: 317119

That depends on which AV solution you are using. If there is no bindings for PHP for that particular solution, you have to see if you can trigger the av check through system or exec calls.

An example of an AV solution that actually does provide bindings for usage with PHP would be

Upvotes: 5

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