Re: [PHP] PHP to access shell script to print barcodes
The problem you're getting is that your web-server interprets the
request as a request for a normal file and just sends it - in effect,
you're not outputting the postscript file, you're just sending the
.php file. Normally, you'll only get your php executed if the file
requested is a .php or .phtml - unless you've changed your server
config.
Try creating a serveps.php that uses the header(Content-Disposition:
attachment; filename: 'serveps.ps') instead, see if that helps you.
Regards
On 24 March 2010 06:09, Rob Gould gould...@me.com wrote:
Well, that did something, and it does sound like it should work. I've
scoured the web and haven't found anyone with code that does what I'm trying
to do.
I've got a working, hardcoded Postscript file here:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps
But I need to somehow serve it with PHP, so I can change some variables in it.
By putting headers in place with PHP, and then doing an echo of the
postscript, I get postscript errors (though Preview doesn't tell me what the
error is):
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/serverps.ps
Trying to trick the web-browser into thinking it's receiving Postscript from
a PHP file is tricky. I don't know what to do next.
Here's the code I was using in the above url:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/serveps.php.zip
It's not clear to me if the server is parsing the postscript first and then
serving it, or if the server is server the postscript as-is and the browser
sends it to Preview which interprets it.
I basically want to replicate the functionality found here:
http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/
On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Peter Lind wrote:
You can create a .php script that sets a proper header to make the
browser download the file rather than display it. That also allows you
to set the filename for the download. What you'd need to do is include
something like:
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename: 'barcodemerge.ps');
That tells the browser to download the file. You can also try setting
the content-type
header('Content-type: application/postscript');
Either of the above might do the trick for you.
Regards
Peter
On 23 March 2010 22:10, Rob Gould gould...@me.com wrote:
I love the idea of using PHP to insert data into Postscript. I'm just not
sure how to make it happen.
The good news is that I've got barcodes drawing just the way I need them:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps
The bad news is that's all hard-coded Postscript. I'd like to take your
suggestion and use PHP to loop-through and draw the barcodes - - - however,
if I put anything that resembles PHP in my .ps file, bad things happen.
Anyone know the secret to creating a postscript .ps file that had PHP code
injecting data into it?
Here's the source file that works. Where PHP would be handy is at the very
bottom of the script
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps.zip
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
On 23 March 2010 05:48, Jochem Maas joc...@iamjochem.com wrote:
Op 3/23/10 3:27 AM, Rob Gould schreef:
I am trying to replicate the functionality that I see on this site:
http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/
Notice after you hit SUBMIT QUERY, you get a PDF file with a page of
barcodes. That's _exactly_ what I'm after.
Fortunately, the author gives step-by-step instructions on how to do
this on this page:
http://blog.maniac.nl/2008/05/28/creating-lto-barcodes/
So I've gotten through all the steps, and have created the
barcode_with_samples.ps file, and have it hosted here:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/
Notice how the last few lines contain the shell-script that renders the
postscript:
#!/bin/bash
BASE=”100″;
NR=$BASE
for hor in 30 220 410
do
ver=740
while [ $ver -ge 40 ];
do
printf -v FNR “(%06dL3)” $NR
echo “$hor $ver moveto $FNR (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode”
let ver=$ver-70
let NR=NR+1
done
done
I need to somehow create a PHP script that executes this shell script.
And after doing some research, it sounds like
I need to use the PHP exec command, so I do that with the following file:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/printbarcodes.php
Which has the following script:
?php
$command=http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcode_with_sample.ps;;
exec($command, $arr);
echo $arr;
?
And, as you can see, nothing works. I guess firstly, I'd like to know:
A) Is this PHP exec call really the way to go with executing this shell
script? Is there a better way? It seems to me like it's not really
executing.
that's what exec() is for. $command need to contain a *local* path to the
command in question, currently your
trying to pass a url to bash ... which obviously doesn't do much.
the shell script in question needs to have
Re: [PHP] PHP to access shell script to print barcodes
On 23 March 2010 05:48, Jochem Maas joc...@iamjochem.com wrote:
Op 3/23/10 3:27 AM, Rob Gould schreef:
I am trying to replicate the functionality that I see on this site:
http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/
Notice after you hit SUBMIT QUERY, you get a PDF file with a page of
barcodes. That's _exactly_ what I'm after.
Fortunately, the author gives step-by-step instructions on how to do this on
this page:
http://blog.maniac.nl/2008/05/28/creating-lto-barcodes/
So I've gotten through all the steps, and have created the
barcode_with_samples.ps file, and have it hosted here:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/
Notice how the last few lines contain the shell-script that renders the
postscript:
#!/bin/bash
BASE=”100″;
NR=$BASE
for hor in 30 220 410
do
ver=740
while [ $ver -ge 40 ];
do
printf -v FNR “(%06dL3)” $NR
echo “$hor $ver moveto $FNR (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode”
let ver=$ver-70
let NR=NR+1
done
done
I need to somehow create a PHP script that executes this shell script.
And after doing some research, it sounds like
I need to use the PHP exec command, so I do that with the following file:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/printbarcodes.php
Which has the following script:
?php
$command=http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcode_with_sample.ps;;
exec($command, $arr);
echo $arr;
?
And, as you can see, nothing works. I guess firstly, I'd like to know:
A) Is this PHP exec call really the way to go with executing this shell
script? Is there a better way? It seems to me like it's not really
executing.
that's what exec() is for. $command need to contain a *local* path to the
command in question, currently your
trying to pass a url to bash ... which obviously doesn't do much.
the shell script in question needs to have the executable bit set in order to
run (either that or change to command to
run bash with your script as an argument)
I'd also suggest putting the shell script outside of your webroot, or at
least in a directory that's not accessable
from the web.
--
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To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
I think this is a translation of the script to PHP.
?php
$BASE = 100;
$NR = $BASE;
foreach(array(30, 220, 410) as $hor) {
$ver = 740;
while ($ver = 40) {
printf($hor $ver moveto (%06dL3) (includetext height=0.55)
code39
barcode\n, $NR);
$ver -= 70;
++$NR;
}
}
It produces output like ...
30 740 moveto (000100L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 670 moveto (000101L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 600 moveto (000102L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 530 moveto (000103L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 460 moveto (000104L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 390 moveto (000105L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 320 moveto (000106L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 250 moveto (000107L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 180 moveto (000108L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 110 moveto (000109L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 40 moveto (000110L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 740 moveto (000111L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 670 moveto (000112L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 600 moveto (000113L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 530 moveto (000114L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 460 moveto (000115L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 390 moveto (000116L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 320 moveto (000117L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 250 moveto (000118L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 180 moveto (000119L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 110 moveto (000120L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 40 moveto (000121L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 740 moveto (000122L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 670 moveto (000123L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 600 moveto (000124L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 530 moveto (000125L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 460 moveto (000126L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 390 moveto (000127L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 320 moveto (000128L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 250 moveto (000129L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 180 moveto (000130L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 110 moveto (000131L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 40 moveto (000132L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
No idea if that is accurate or not. If you can run the script by hand
once to confirm, then
--
-
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Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!
EE :
Re: [PHP] PHP to access shell script to print barcodes
I love the idea of using PHP to insert data into Postscript. I'm just not sure
how to make it happen.
The good news is that I've got barcodes drawing just the way I need them:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps
The bad news is that's all hard-coded Postscript. I'd like to take your
suggestion and use PHP to loop-through and draw the barcodes - - - however, if
I put anything that resembles PHP in my .ps file, bad things happen.
Anyone know the secret to creating a postscript .ps file that had PHP code
injecting data into it?
Here's the source file that works. Where PHP would be handy is at the very
bottom of the script
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps.zip
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
On 23 March 2010 05:48, Jochem Maas joc...@iamjochem.com wrote:
Op 3/23/10 3:27 AM, Rob Gould schreef:
I am trying to replicate the functionality that I see on this site:
http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/
Notice after you hit SUBMIT QUERY, you get a PDF file with a page of
barcodes. That's _exactly_ what I'm after.
Fortunately, the author gives step-by-step instructions on how to do this
on this page:
http://blog.maniac.nl/2008/05/28/creating-lto-barcodes/
So I've gotten through all the steps, and have created the
barcode_with_samples.ps file, and have it hosted here:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/
Notice how the last few lines contain the shell-script that renders the
postscript:
#!/bin/bash
BASE=”100″;
NR=$BASE
for hor in 30 220 410
do
ver=740
while [ $ver -ge 40 ];
do
printf -v FNR “(%06dL3)” $NR
echo “$hor $ver moveto $FNR (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode”
let ver=$ver-70
let NR=NR+1
done
done
I need to somehow create a PHP script that executes this shell script.
And after doing some research, it sounds like
I need to use the PHP exec command, so I do that with the following file:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/printbarcodes.php
Which has the following script:
?php
$command=http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcode_with_sample.ps;;
exec($command, $arr);
echo $arr;
?
And, as you can see, nothing works. I guess firstly, I'd like to know:
A) Is this PHP exec call really the way to go with executing this shell
script? Is there a better way? It seems to me like it's not really
executing.
that's what exec() is for. $command need to contain a *local* path to the
command in question, currently your
trying to pass a url to bash ... which obviously doesn't do much.
the shell script in question needs to have the executable bit set in order
to run (either that or change to command to
run bash with your script as an argument)
I'd also suggest putting the shell script outside of your webroot, or at
least in a directory that's not accessable
from the web.
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
I think this is a translation of the script to PHP.
?php
$BASE = 100;
$NR = $BASE;
foreach(array(30, 220, 410) as $hor) {
$ver = 740;
while ($ver = 40) {
printf($hor $ver moveto (%06dL3) (includetext height=0.55)
code39
barcode\n, $NR);
$ver -= 70;
++$NR;
}
}
It produces output like ...
30 740 moveto (000100L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 670 moveto (000101L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 600 moveto (000102L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 530 moveto (000103L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 460 moveto (000104L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 390 moveto (000105L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 320 moveto (000106L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 250 moveto (000107L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 180 moveto (000108L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 110 moveto (000109L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 40 moveto (000110L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 740 moveto (000111L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 670 moveto (000112L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 600 moveto (000113L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 530 moveto (000114L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 460 moveto (000115L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 390 moveto (000116L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 320 moveto (000117L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 250 moveto (000118L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 180 moveto (000119L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 110 moveto (000120L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 40 moveto (000121L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410 740 moveto (000122L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
410
Re: [PHP] PHP to access shell script to print barcodes
You can create a .php script that sets a proper header to make the
browser download the file rather than display it. That also allows you
to set the filename for the download. What you'd need to do is include
something like:
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename: 'barcodemerge.ps');
That tells the browser to download the file. You can also try setting
the content-type
header('Content-type: application/postscript');
Either of the above might do the trick for you.
Regards
Peter
On 23 March 2010 22:10, Rob Gould gould...@me.com wrote:
I love the idea of using PHP to insert data into Postscript. I'm just not
sure how to make it happen.
The good news is that I've got barcodes drawing just the way I need them:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps
The bad news is that's all hard-coded Postscript. I'd like to take your
suggestion and use PHP to loop-through and draw the barcodes - - - however,
if I put anything that resembles PHP in my .ps file, bad things happen.
Anyone know the secret to creating a postscript .ps file that had PHP code
injecting data into it?
Here's the source file that works. Where PHP would be handy is at the very
bottom of the script
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps.zip
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
On 23 March 2010 05:48, Jochem Maas joc...@iamjochem.com wrote:
Op 3/23/10 3:27 AM, Rob Gould schreef:
I am trying to replicate the functionality that I see on this site:
http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/
Notice after you hit SUBMIT QUERY, you get a PDF file with a page of
barcodes. That's _exactly_ what I'm after.
Fortunately, the author gives step-by-step instructions on how to do this
on this page:
http://blog.maniac.nl/2008/05/28/creating-lto-barcodes/
So I've gotten through all the steps, and have created the
barcode_with_samples.ps file, and have it hosted here:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/
Notice how the last few lines contain the shell-script that renders the
postscript:
#!/bin/bash
BASE=”100″;
NR=$BASE
for hor in 30 220 410
do
ver=740
while [ $ver -ge 40 ];
do
printf -v FNR “(%06dL3)” $NR
echo “$hor $ver moveto $FNR (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode”
let ver=$ver-70
let NR=NR+1
done
done
I need to somehow create a PHP script that executes this shell script.
And after doing some research, it sounds like
I need to use the PHP exec command, so I do that with the following file:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/printbarcodes.php
Which has the following script:
?php
$command=http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcode_with_sample.ps;;
exec($command, $arr);
echo $arr;
?
And, as you can see, nothing works. I guess firstly, I'd like to know:
A) Is this PHP exec call really the way to go with executing this shell
script? Is there a better way? It seems to me like it's not really
executing.
that's what exec() is for. $command need to contain a *local* path to the
command in question, currently your
trying to pass a url to bash ... which obviously doesn't do much.
the shell script in question needs to have the executable bit set in order
to run (either that or change to command to
run bash with your script as an argument)
I'd also suggest putting the shell script outside of your webroot, or at
least in a directory that's not accessable
from the web.
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
I think this is a translation of the script to PHP.
?php
$BASE = 100;
$NR = $BASE;
foreach(array(30, 220, 410) as $hor) {
$ver = 740;
while ($ver = 40) {
printf($hor $ver moveto (%06dL3) (includetext height=0.55)
code39
barcode\n, $NR);
$ver -= 70;
++$NR;
}
}
It produces output like ...
30 740 moveto (000100L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 670 moveto (000101L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 600 moveto (000102L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 530 moveto (000103L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 460 moveto (000104L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 390 moveto (000105L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 320 moveto (000106L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 250 moveto (000107L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 180 moveto (000108L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 110 moveto (000109L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
30 40 moveto (000110L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 740 moveto (000111L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 670 moveto (000112L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 600 moveto (000113L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 530 moveto (000114L3) (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode
220 460
Re: [PHP] PHP to access shell script to print barcodes
Well, that did something, and it does sound like it should work. I've scoured
the web and haven't found anyone with code that does what I'm trying to do.
I've got a working, hardcoded Postscript file here:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps
But I need to somehow serve it with PHP, so I can change some variables in it.
By putting headers in place with PHP, and then doing an echo of the
postscript, I get postscript errors (though Preview doesn't tell me what the
error is):
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/serverps.ps
Trying to trick the web-browser into thinking it's receiving Postscript from a
PHP file is tricky. I don't know what to do next.
Here's the code I was using in the above url:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/serveps.php.zip
It's not clear to me if the server is parsing the postscript first and then
serving it, or if the server is server the postscript as-is and the browser
sends it to Preview which interprets it.
I basically want to replicate the functionality found here:
http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/
On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Peter Lind wrote:
You can create a .php script that sets a proper header to make the
browser download the file rather than display it. That also allows you
to set the filename for the download. What you'd need to do is include
something like:
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename: 'barcodemerge.ps');
That tells the browser to download the file. You can also try setting
the content-type
header('Content-type: application/postscript');
Either of the above might do the trick for you.
Regards
Peter
On 23 March 2010 22:10, Rob Gould gould...@me.com wrote:
I love the idea of using PHP to insert data into Postscript. I'm just not
sure how to make it happen.
The good news is that I've got barcodes drawing just the way I need them:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps
The bad news is that's all hard-coded Postscript. I'd like to take your
suggestion and use PHP to loop-through and draw the barcodes - - - however,
if I put anything that resembles PHP in my .ps file, bad things happen.
Anyone know the secret to creating a postscript .ps file that had PHP code
injecting data into it?
Here's the source file that works. Where PHP would be handy is at the very
bottom of the script
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcodemerge.ps.zip
On Mar 23, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
On 23 March 2010 05:48, Jochem Maas joc...@iamjochem.com wrote:
Op 3/23/10 3:27 AM, Rob Gould schreef:
I am trying to replicate the functionality that I see on this site:
http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/
Notice after you hit SUBMIT QUERY, you get a PDF file with a page of
barcodes. That's _exactly_ what I'm after.
Fortunately, the author gives step-by-step instructions on how to do this
on this page:
http://blog.maniac.nl/2008/05/28/creating-lto-barcodes/
So I've gotten through all the steps, and have created the
barcode_with_samples.ps file, and have it hosted here:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/
Notice how the last few lines contain the shell-script that renders the
postscript:
#!/bin/bash
BASE=”100″;
NR=$BASE
for hor in 30 220 410
do
ver=740
while [ $ver -ge 40 ];
do
printf -v FNR “(%06dL3)” $NR
echo “$hor $ver moveto $FNR (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode”
let ver=$ver-70
let NR=NR+1
done
done
I need to somehow create a PHP script that executes this shell script.
And after doing some research, it sounds like
I need to use the PHP exec command, so I do that with the following file:
http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/printbarcodes.php
Which has the following script:
?php
$command=http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcode_with_sample.ps;;
exec($command, $arr);
echo $arr;
?
And, as you can see, nothing works. I guess firstly, I'd like to know:
A) Is this PHP exec call really the way to go with executing this shell
script? Is there a better way? It seems to me like it's not really
executing.
that's what exec() is for. $command need to contain a *local* path to the
command in question, currently your
trying to pass a url to bash ... which obviously doesn't do much.
the shell script in question needs to have the executable bit set in order
to run (either that or change to command to
run bash with your script as an argument)
I'd also suggest putting the shell script outside of your webroot, or at
least in a directory that's not accessable
from the web.
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I think this is a translation of the script to PHP.
?php
$BASE = 100;
$NR = $BASE;
foreach(array(30, 220, 410) as $hor) {
$ver = 740;
Re: [PHP] PHP to access shell script to print barcodes
Op 3/23/10 3:27 AM, Rob Gould schreef: I am trying to replicate the functionality that I see on this site: http://blog.maniac.nl/webbased-pdf-lto-barcode-generator/ Notice after you hit SUBMIT QUERY, you get a PDF file with a page of barcodes. That's _exactly_ what I'm after. Fortunately, the author gives step-by-step instructions on how to do this on this page: http://blog.maniac.nl/2008/05/28/creating-lto-barcodes/ So I've gotten through all the steps, and have created the barcode_with_samples.ps file, and have it hosted here: http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/ Notice how the last few lines contain the shell-script that renders the postscript: #!/bin/bash BASE=”100″; NR=$BASE for hor in 30 220 410 do ver=740 while [ $ver -ge 40 ]; do printf -v FNR “(%06dL3)” $NR echo “$hor $ver moveto $FNR (includetext height=0.55) code39 barcode” let ver=$ver-70 let NR=NR+1 done done I need to somehow create a PHP script that executes this shell script. And after doing some research, it sounds like I need to use the PHP exec command, so I do that with the following file: http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/printbarcodes.php Which has the following script: ?php $command=http://www.winecarepro.com/kiosk/fast/shell/barcode_with_sample.ps;; exec($command, $arr); echo $arr; ? And, as you can see, nothing works. I guess firstly, I'd like to know: A) Is this PHP exec call really the way to go with executing this shell script? Is there a better way? It seems to me like it's not really executing. that's what exec() is for. $command need to contain a *local* path to the command in question, currently your trying to pass a url to bash ... which obviously doesn't do much. the shell script in question needs to have the executable bit set in order to run (either that or change to command to run bash with your script as an argument) I'd also suggest putting the shell script outside of your webroot, or at least in a directory that's not accessable from the web. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
