[PHP] Running CLI from a web page

I have a php cli that creates a file. It works fine when I execute it from the Linux command line as php foo bar. I'm trying to also execute this by clicking a form button on a web page via system('php foo bar'). I can see that the file bar gets created but it's always empty. I've tried

RE: [PHP] Running CLI from a web page

[snip] I have a php cli that creates a file. It works fine when I execute it from the Linux command line as php foo bar. I'm trying to also execute this by clicking a form button on a web page via system('php foo bar'). I can see that the file bar gets created but it's always empty. I've

Re: [PHP] Running CLI from a web page

There are already plenty of echo statements in foo! They DO show up when I run php foo. It's when I try to use system(php foo) that I don't get anything. Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I have a php cli that creates a file. It works fine when I

Re: [PHP] Running CLI from a web page

--- Ron Rudman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are already plenty of echo statements in foo! They DO show up when I run php foo. It's when I try to use system(php foo) that I don't get anything. I missed the original question, but why are you trying to use the PHP CLI from within PHP itself?

Re: [PHP] Running CLI from a web page

I have a report that I would like to run as a cron job, hence the need for a standalone CLI version that just reads the database and has no other context. But...I would also like to run this report on demand from within a web application. It seemed obvious that all I'd have to do was execute my

Re: [PHP] Running CLI from a web page

--- Ron Rudman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a report that I would like to run as a cron job, hence the need for a standalone CLI version that just reads the database and has no other context. [snip] I can't see how I would use eval() here, since in the command line: php foo, foo is a

Re: [PHP] Running CLI from a web page

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