RE: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program?

2002-03-31 Thread Cal Evans
Martina, If you mean, from within a browser, is it possible to invoke a program on a client's machine then...yes, with a caveat. If the OS is windows, and the program has a COM interface and the user has set the security settings to a moronically low level, it is possible to invoke COM objects

Re: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program?

2002-03-31 Thread martinahingis
hmm.. very thanks Cal. I don't have any problem with security settings or another client side setting. Because actually I'm using PHP for an application (but not a web application) just works for the machine which is the server or in the same LAN with the werver. And all settings of their

RE: [PHP] Is it possible to call an external client or server program?

2002-03-31 Thread Cal Evans
If you are running a PHP script (like a shell script or a batch file) then you can use the back tiks (`) to execute a command on the machine that the PHP script is running on. (On my keyboard the backtik is on the same key as the tilde.) But if you are running this out of a web server then not