Kelly Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm learning shell scripting via linux, and have written a script that creates the 
>core files necessary for a users website from a master set of files.
> 
> Works from the shell just fine (bash makethesite.sh username pathtoputfiles 
>pathtogetfiles)
> 
> Trying to execute this via php, and it literally does nothing.
> 
> If I try something like:
> $bashoutput=shell_exec('bash makethesite.sh username pathtoputfiles pathtogetfiles');
> echo $bashoutput;
> 
> I get nothing output, and the script doesn't execute.


I'm asuming you are executing something like the following:

php myPhpScript.php

The following will probably give you the desired results...

php -qC myPhpScript.php

This prevents PHP from switching out of the current directory.

HTH,
Rob.
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