[PHP-DB] Executing a shell script HELP!

2001-09-30 Thread Armando Cerna 

I have a shell script that I am executing like this $files = `shellscript`; 
but if I do an if ($files) it doesn't read $files as existing.  The contents 
of the shell script is a smbclient line that copies a bunch of DBF files from 
another machine.  Anyone have any idea?  Below is a little snipit of my code

 $files = `updatemp`;


  if ($files) {
print $filesbr;
print I am god;

  } else {
print $files; 
print It's ok you'll get it working. =);
  }






The contents of the updatemp file is as follows

smbclient //machine/c -I 192.168.0.4 -U armando%secret -D a1 -c 'lcd /tmp/dbf 
; prompt ; mget *.dbf ; quit'


Thanks in advance,
Armando

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Re: [PHP-DB] Executing a shell script HELP!

2001-09-30 Thread Armando Cerna 

On Sunday 30 September 2001 04:38 pm, Andreas D. Landmark wrote:
 At 01.10.2001 00:02, you wrote:
 I have a shell script that I am executing like this $files =
  `shellscript`; but if I do an if ($files) it doesn't read $files as
  existing.  The contents of the shell script is a smbclient line that
  copies a bunch of DBF files from another machine.  Anyone have any idea? 
  Below is a little snipit of my code
 
   $files = `updatemp`;
 
 
if ($files) {
  print $filesbr;
  print I am god;
 
} else {
  print $files;
  print It's ok you'll get it working. =);
}

 using `s doesn't work quite like they do in BASH (and many other
 scriptlanguages)
 use passthru() or something instead...

 I can't really see why you're doing this in PHP as BASH would be much more
 efficient...
 and to some extent easier, not to mention that this isn't far off a
 one-liner...


Because I need to update the my mysql database via a web interface


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