take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php for various methods to run an external program.
Alternatively, you can use fopen (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php) to create the non existent file in PHP itself no need to run an external command (fopen (file_name, "w") will create the file if it doesn't exist. Similarly delete (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.delete.php) will delete a file in PHP. also you can ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: [PHP] PHP command for issuing UNIX command??? > Hi! > > I wanted to know if there is a PHP code or function that would allow the > PHP to issue the UNIX command. > > What I'm doing here is I'm trying to tell PHP to create a file by > issuing hte UNIX command then I can use the PHP to open the file to enter > the data. Once I'm done with the file, I can use the UNIX to run the script > in the file to communicate with the modem by executing the file. When I'm > done then I can open an another file to grab the data that had be received > by the modem and do the PHP things to do something with hte data. When > done, then I can use the PHP to tell UNIX to delete the file and Voila! > > Thanks, > Scott > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
