I'm trying to remember my PHP -- it's been a couple of years:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
I'm pretty sure that's what I used before. There are security issues.
You need to ensure that someone can't pass in arbitrary code.
- Eli
On May 5, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Jacob Farber wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Laurel and I are working on the custom Infusion build experience,
and we’ve started to make some headway.
Now that Michelle has built the infrastructure for customized
builds, we’ve started to this about how the experience should play
out, and how the backend/frontend should communicate to generate a
build. Some examples of this kind of functionality can be found at
jQuery UI’s download page and Mootools’ download page. One tricky
part we’re finding is how to process the commands we need to
generate a build with Ant.
The current workflow is looking like this:
1. PHP parses the build.properties and the JSON dependencies
files to fetch and generate a list of modules and their dependencies
2. Form will POST to the server (running php) a list of
selected modules
3. Form processor will then deduce the exclusion list from the
inclusion list
4. If some dependencies are found to be in the exclusion list,
we POST back a warning on the form about each missing dependency,
asking the user to confirm their desire not to include them
5. Upon confirmation, we (remember these settings ? and)
communication will be POSTed back to the server where (Ant? Phing?
Something else?) will process the data and return a (file? Path to a
file?)
(Please note we’re hoping to create an Infusion component to cover
some of this workflow, so the experience becomes even smoother).
As you can see, there are gaps to fill here. Any ideas and feedback
to this process will be very much appreciated! Particularly, how PHP
could fire a shell script or execute a command line instruction.
Jacob
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Eli Cochran
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ETS, UC Berkeley
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