Hi, Shawn and all:
I tried to run the script using the method you suggested for Windows, but it
gives me this:
'http' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.
I could telnet and ping to the server using #80 to where the script
calculate.php is located, though. Do you or anyone else on the list might tell
me why I cannot execute the script through this method?
Here is my calculate.php, if it is of any help to you for troubleshooting:
<?php
// For PHP 5 and up
$file="http://www.mysite.com/lung.txt";;
$handle = fopen("lung.txt", "rb");
$contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
fclose($handle);
$count = count(explode(" ", $contents));
echo "<p>There are <b>" . $count. "</b> words in <b>" . $file . "</b></p>";
?>
Thanks in advance.
Alice
======================================================
Alice Wei
MIS 2009
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Shawn McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:43 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Re: exec() Error
Wei, Alice J. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have got a task from my client asking me to build something that
> allows the variables in the PHP file passed to another PHP file or a file in
> a different computer language to perform some operations on another remote
> machine. According to my client, he calls this behind the scenes to avoid
> users screw up the front end, and I am hoping that I can produce one single
> script, and have it execute some script without the user pushing any button.
> Has anyone tried using exec() successfully in PHP to execute files from PHP
> or other programming languages? For example, C, Python, or Perl.
>
> I have tried this by putting in
>
> exec("http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php";);
>
> This is the error I got:
>
> Warning: exec() [function.exec]: Unable to fork
> [http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php] in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\read.php on line
> 31
>
> I have checked my permissions, and I have set it to 755.
> Does anyone know how I might be able to correct this error?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Alice
> ======================================================
> Alice Wei
> MIS 2009
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, whatever OS you use, try typing that at the command line and see
if it works. That's what exec does in effect.
Linux:
$ http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php
Windows:
C:\> http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php
-Shawn
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