Hi Scott
We've tried a number of different ways of calling system commands, and
found that when using sqlite3 (via PHP's PDO drivers) that it was tricky
to get right on the foxboard. In the end I used the following function
that worked as long as it was called before any of the SQLite3
functions. Your situation may be quite different though..... and
hopefully you can use the normal system commands without needing to use
the following..... but here it is for reference:
<?php function systemcmd_ex($commandstr)
{
$pid = pcntl_fork();
if ($pid == -1) {
die('could not fork');
} else if ($pid) {
// we are the parent
pcntl_waitpid($pid, $status); //Protect against Zombie children
return($status);
} else {
// we are the child
// Use pcnl_exec
$args = array ($commandstr);
pcntl_exec("/var/local/www/quiet.sh", $args);
exit(-1); // should never get here!!
}
}
?>
You'll also need to create a quiet.sh script (also with chmod +x) - you
may want it in another location - just remember to change the reference
to it's path above too.
which has the following 2 lines in it (remember to use UNIX (and not
DOS) encoding for this file):
#!/bin/sh
$@ > /dev/null 2>&1
We are configuring php (v5.2.6) with the following options:
--disable-all \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/ \
--enable-pdo \
--enable-session \
--with-pdo-sqlite \
--enable-posix \
--enable-pcntl \
--enable-discard-path
Cheers
Jono
Scott Lingerfelt wrote:
I have been successfull sending arguments to a shell script from a php
web page but cannot get them to be passed to the system.
How can I have an interface in php and have the user set the date and
submit allowing it to update the system date and time?
Here is a simple php test page:
[code]
<?php
$cmd=070600002008.00 //test date/time
$output = shell_exec('/mnt/flash/date_set.sh '.$cmd);
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>
[/code]
and here is the script date_set.sh:
[code]
var1=$1
echo 'date ' . $var1
[/code]
Thanks in advance,
Scott
