ID: 22926
User updated by: phpbugs at bob7 dot com
Reported By: phpbugs at bob7 dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Program Execution
Operating System: Windows 2000 server
PHP Version: 4.3.1
New Comment:
Your comments are very helpful. Thanks!
I hope this helps the next guy too.
One thing to remember is to copy the php4ts.dll file into the CLI
directory if it is on the machine's path. Otherwise shell_exec returns
an empty string.
Previous Comments:
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[2003-03-31 17:32:23] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Works w/ CLI, not PHP Bug => Bogus
As to using a stream to get the output of processing another PHP file:
Unfortunately the document you want processed (using this method) MUST
be in a publicly accessable document tree.
All the php stream does is pretend its a browser making a page
request.
What you *can* do, if you want to be able to do this the easy way but
not have the document be publicly accessable is give it a password.
// In your main script:
<?php
$message =
file_get_contents("http://localhost/generateemail.php?password=secret";);
?>
// In generateemail.php:
<?php
if ($_GET['password'] != 'secret') die("Don't hack!");
// Do the rest of your magic
?>
Hope that helps.
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[2003-03-31 10:47:04] phpbugs at bob7 dot com
I repeated the test using the CLI interface and was able to get 'php
-h' to run.
I also see that I can use the new streams functionality to create HTML
mail bodies. The problem with the streams approach is that (I believe)
the .php files need to be in the document tree, so if I go that route,
I have to add authentication.
Perhaps there is or you guys may be planning a way that allows http
streams from outside the doc tree?
Thanks again,
-Bob
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[2003-03-27 07:51:55] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could you please try CLI version of PHP.EXE? It comes in the cli
directory of the standard ZIP distribution.
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[2003-03-27 07:45:40] phpbugs at bob7 dot com
The following does not work. It spawns scores of processes, which
fortunately all die after 30 seconds.
<?
echo shell_exec("(path to php)/php.exe -h");
?>
I looked at the bug reports about possibly needing command.com but
these do not work either: (same result)
<?
echo shell_exec("command -c (path to php)/php.exe -h");
?>
<?
echo shell_exec("CMD /C (path to php)/php.exe -h");
?>
Why would I want to do this? To send html email using the PEAR mime
mail class, i.e.
<?
$htmlBody = shell_exec("(path to php)/php.exe
mimebody.php?param1=yada");
//rest of code to send mail...
?>
I downloaded and installed the standard windows installer, and the path
to php is C:\Inetpub\PHP
I have the same problem using back ticks as well.
Thanks very much for looking at this.
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