If you have the php cgi installed you can run a script like so:
exec("php -q /path/to/script.php")
You didn't include the command (php -q), you only included the path to the
script.
If you don't have the cgi, but you are running on *nix you can
exec("lynx http://www.host.com/script.php")
assuming lynx is installed.
Instead of exec, why not just include the script you want to run in your
page?
Matt Friedman
Spry New Media
http://www.sprynewmedia.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Robley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Executing a PHP file to write an html file
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:06, PHP User wrote:
> > Here is my problem.
> > I have a file, static.php
> > static.php writes to index.html by way of...
> > $filename = "/web/h16/docs/index.html";
> > $fp = fopen("$filename","w");
> > fwrite($fp, "<table width=\"230\">\n");
> > etc......
> >
> > If I hit static.php from the command line, index.html gets written just
> > fine. static.php does it's job.
> >
> > If I try to exec(), or system() static.php from a browser the browser
> > just hangs. eg. I add:
> > system ('/usr/local/bin/php web/h16/docs/index.html);
> > or
> > exec ('/usr/local/bin/php web/h16/docs/index.html);
> > To a file and get nothing. I tried with and without the absolute paths
> > in the commands.
> >
> > What I want to be able to do is every time I update a Db, at the same
> > time I want the index page to be rewritten to reflect the changes in
> > the Db. And I don't want to have to go to the command line everytime I
> > want to rewrite the index page. So I would just hit "SAve" in the
> > update.php page, it would save to the Db, which it does now, and at the
> > same time it hits static.php and therefore rewrites index.html
> >
> > I also tried header() but that was no good due to echo in the pages,
> > gives that header already sent error.
> >
> > Is there a funtion I am missing somehwere that does the job?
> >
> > It's a Unix box running php 4.03, and the Db is MySQL
> >
> > Thanks Much!!
>
> Is it possible you have a permissions problem? Remember that your
> webserver will probably be running as something like nobody, which may
> not have the necessary permissions to wwrite to files in that particular
> directory.
>
>
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