Ah, well, can't help you there, sorry. -Steve
On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 09:40 AM, George Pitcher wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks for the response, but it's a server-side 'run' I'm looking for, > not > client-side (they get web access to the db). > > Basically I want to be able to test that the db is running and if it > isn't > then I want to 'run' it. Platform is NT, server is IIS4 > > George > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Cayford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "George Pitcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:39 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] 'Running' a file from PHP script > > >> >> On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 02:22 AM, George Pitcher wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm a PHP newbie, my main scipring being done in Blueworld's Lasso. >>> >>> I have used php fro time to time with Lasso to do some file handling. >>> >>> My question is: 'Can I run a file from a PHP script?' >>> >>> The file in question would be a Filemaker database file. I want to be >>> able >>> to open the file in the Filemaker application if the file is not >>> already >>> running. >>> >> >> If you mean can you open the Filemaker application on the client's >> machine using PHP, then no. Keep in mind that PHP is only running on >> the >> server(*), all the client machine sees is the HTML output from your PHP >> script. Maybe you could use javascript to do this, but I haven't used >> javascript much. >> >> -Steve >> >> (*) Assuming you're using PHP in its normal web-server scripting mode. >> >> >>> MTIA >>> >>> George in Edinburgh >>> >>> >>> >>> _________________________________________________________ >>> Do You Yahoo!? >>> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
