RE: [PHP] php-cli - Controlling external programs

2003-07-31 Thread Jay Blanchard 
[snip]
Bah, not the answer I was looking for...I really wanted to use PHP and I
have most of what I wanted accomplished. Thanks for the tip, I will
investigate.
[/snip]

http://us3.php.net/features.commandline 

If you use -a for your command line script the script will run
interactively

example: php -a myscript.php

or if you want to use a bash line at the head of your script

#!/usr/local/bin/php -a (dependent upon the location of php)

HTH

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Re: [PHP] php-cli - Controlling external programs

2003-07-30 Thread Tom Rogers 
Hi,

Thursday, July 31, 2003, 1:53:50 PM, you wrote:
MM> I'm writing a script to be run from the command line. It controls my DAT
MM> autoloader (tape changer) and runs tar so that I can automate my backups.
MM> With the -M option, tar will prompt for a new tape when the current tape is
MM> full. How can I get the signal from tar that the tape needs to be changed?
MM> Is there another way to interact with external programs other than, exec,
MM> backticks, etc.? I'm running 4.3.2-cli on FreeBSD with POSIX and pcntl
MM> functions enabled.

MM> Thanks,
MM> Mike

Maybe this will help

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx/

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Re: [PHP] php-cli - Controlling external programs

2003-07-30 Thread Mike Maltese 
Bah, not the answer I was looking for...I really wanted to use PHP and I
have most of what I wanted accomplished. Thanks for the tip, I will
investigate.

"Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --- Mike Maltese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm writing a script to be run from the command line.
> ...
> > How can I get the signal from tar that the tape needs to be changed?
>
> It sounds like you are wanting to write an interactive shell script. If
this is
> the case (e.g., I didn't misunderstand), you should probably use expect
instead
> of PHP.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Chris
>
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Re: [PHP] php-cli - Controlling external programs

2003-07-30 Thread Chris Shiflett 
--- Mike Maltese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm writing a script to be run from the command line.
...
> How can I get the signal from tar that the tape needs to be changed?

It sounds like you are wanting to write an interactive shell script. If this is
the case (e.g., I didn't misunderstand), you should probably use expect instead
of PHP.

Hope that helps.

Chris

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[PHP] php-cli - Controlling external programs

2003-07-30 Thread Mike Maltese 
I'm writing a script to be run from the command line. It controls my DAT
autoloader (tape changer) and runs tar so that I can automate my backups.
With the -M option, tar will prompt for a new tape when the current tape is
full. How can I get the signal from tar that the tape needs to be changed?
Is there another way to interact with external programs other than, exec,
backticks, etc.? I'm running 4.3.2-cli on FreeBSD with POSIX and pcntl
functions enabled.

Thanks,
Mike



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