Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
You might have something there - never really thought about how windows forms the 8.3 names... not many resources online about it ... The actual path is c:\Program File\Gammu 1.23.91\bin\gammu.exe I'd used c:\Progra~1\Gammu~1\bin\gammu.exe Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.netwrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, Tried all that - it'd work well until one of the arguments also had spaces and thus had or '' encapsulating it - this weirdness is the reason for this post. Shawn, even the good old C:\pathwi~1\gammu.exe failed :-( Well, you didn't do it properly then. What is the actual path? The only way I've gotten it to work was to get rid of the spaces in the path/to/exe. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: hey... if you're going to deal with file/pathnames in windows/linux.. you're going to have to encapsulate them with or with '' ie double/single quotes... -Original Message- From: Kyohere Luke [mailto:l...@beyonic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: Bastien Koert Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Kyohere Luke pr0...@gmail.com wrote: You might have something there - never really thought about how windows forms the 8.3 names... not many resources online about it ... The actual path is c:\Program File\Gammu 1.23.91\bin\gammu.exe I'd used c:\Progra~1\Gammu~1\bin\gammu.exe You should be able to view these truncated path names via the dir command in a CMD.EXE command line. I say this because Program Files and Programs would collide with each other (just as an example); one would be Progra~1 and one would be Progra~2. -- // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
I've skimmed some of thread, but I have not been following closely so please disregard if I'm just rambling. However, I've worked with lots of software on DOS boxen that couldn't handle long file names. If they also choke on the tildes then I usually just write a batch file that calls the full path and file with whatever command line parameters I pass to the batch. For example: --- @echo off C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe %1 %2 %3 --- HTH, G On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:26 AM, haliphax halip...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Kyohere Luke pr0...@gmail.com wrote: You might have something there - never really thought about how windows forms the 8.3 names... not many resources online about it ... The actual path is c:\Program File\Gammu 1.23.91\bin\gammu.exe I'd used c:\Progra~1\Gammu~1\bin\gammu.exe You should be able to view these truncated path names via the dir command in a CMD.EXE command line. I say this because Program Files and Programs would collide with each other (just as an example); one would be Progra~1 and one would be Progra~2. -- // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
when dealing with windows.. or any file/pathname.. you can't simply quote/double quote the name using the ~ symbol as well.. haven't done it for awhile.. but i believe you need to explode/derive the complete path/filename and then quote/double quote it for use by the app... -Original Message- From: l...@beyonic.com [mailto:l...@beyonic.com]on Behalf Of Kyohere Luke Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:48 PM To: Shawn McKenzie Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows You might have something there - never really thought about how windows forms the 8.3 names... not many resources online about it ... The actual path is c:\Program File\Gammu 1.23.91\bin\gammu.exe I'd used c:\Progra~1\Gammu~1\bin\gammu.exe Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.netwrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, Tried all that - it'd work well until one of the arguments also had spaces and thus had or '' encapsulating it - this weirdness is the reason for this post. Shawn, even the good old C:\pathwi~1\gammu.exe failed :-( Well, you didn't do it properly then. What is the actual path? The only way I've gotten it to work was to get rid of the spaces in the path/to/exe. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: hey... if you're going to deal with file/pathnames in windows/linux.. you're going to have to encapsulate them with or with '' ie double/single quotes... -Original Message- From: Kyohere Luke [mailto:l...@beyonic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: Bastien Koert Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Kyohere Luke wrote: You might have something there - never really thought about how windows forms the 8.3 names... not many resources online about it ... The actual path is c:\Program File\Gammu 1.23.91\bin\gammu.exe I'd used c:\Progra~1\Gammu~1\bin\gammu.exe You take the first 6 characters (ignoring spaces) and then add a tilde ~ and a number. The number will increment for another directory alphabetically after the one with the 1 if it reduces to the same 6 characters and so on. Yours would most likely be: c:\Progra~1\Gammu1~1\bin\gammu.exe Unless some other directory is alphabetically before one of those and reduces to the same 6 characters. For example if you have a c:\Program or a c:\Program File\Gammu 1.111 I'm pretty sure the dir command will show you the 8.3 name. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.netwrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.netwrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Kyohere Luke wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke Well, I don't think you stated that at first, on the text message had spaces. Try: $command = 'C:\path with spaces\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; If not, you can use the good old: $command = 'C:\pathwi~1\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
RE: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
hey... if you're going to deal with file/pathnames in windows/linux.. you're going to have to encapsulate them with or with '' ie double/single quotes... -Original Message- From: Kyohere Luke [mailto:l...@beyonic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: Bastien Koert Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Hi, Tried all that - it'd work well until one of the arguments also had spaces and thus had or '' encapsulating it - this weirdness is the reason for this post. Shawn, even the good old C:\pathwi~1\gammu.exe failed :-( The only way I've gotten it to work was to get rid of the spaces in the path/to/exe. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: hey... if you're going to deal with file/pathnames in windows/linux.. you're going to have to encapsulate them with or with '' ie double/single quotes... -Original Message- From: Kyohere Luke [mailto:l...@beyonic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: Bastien Koert Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Hi, Tried all that - it'd work well until one of the arguments also had spaces and thus had or '' encapsulating it - this weirdness is the reason for this post. Shawn, even the good old C:\pathwi~1\gammu.exe failed :-( The only way I've gotten it to work was to get rid of the spaces in the path/to/exe. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: hey... if you're going to deal with file/pathnames in windows/linux.. you're going to have to encapsulate them with or with '' ie double/single quotes... -Original Message- From: Kyohere Luke [mailto:l...@beyonic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: Bastien Koert Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, Tried all that - it'd work well until one of the arguments also had spaces and thus had or '' encapsulating it - this weirdness is the reason for this post. Shawn, even the good old C:\pathwi~1\gammu.exe failed :-( Well, you didn't do it properly then. What is the actual path? The only way I've gotten it to work was to get rid of the spaces in the path/to/exe. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, bruce bedoug...@earthlink.net wrote: hey... if you're going to deal with file/pathnames in windows/linux.. you're going to have to encapsulate them with or with '' ie double/single quotes... -Original Message- From: Kyohere Luke [mailto:l...@beyonic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:18 AM To: Bastien Koert Cc: Shawn McKenzie; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Problems with exec() on windows
Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote in message news:9bc423c50903191018k3c783213l4929cf2878e98...@mail.gmail.com... Eventually settled for getting rid of the spaces in the path. That worked. Thanks. Luke On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Bastien Koert phps...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Kyohere Luke l...@beyonic.com wrote: Thanks, but I tried this. Doesn't work because the path\to\gammu.exe has spaces in it Haliphax, thanks for your comments. I tried escapeshellarg() to no end. I'm exploring your reply regarding proc_open, but how exactly does proc_open separate the arguments from the command? Unless i'm mistaken, data written to the process's stdin (for the other process) is not treated like an argument. If I add the arguments to the process name/path? I'm back to square one. Luke. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Shawn McKenzie nos...@mckenzies.net wrote: Kyohere Luke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use exec to call gammu.exe and send sms on windows XP. This works from commandline: C:\path\to\gammu.exe 1 --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2 But if I run it through php like this: $command = \C:\path\to\gammu.exe\ --sendsms EMS 200 -text \test1 test2\.; @exec($command, $response, $retval); This always fails, returns 1 and the response is empty. If the last argument is a string with no spaces, and the double quotes were omitted, it works perfectly. If the double quotes are added around the string with no spaces, it fails again, which makes me believe that the problem is with the double quotes. I've used procmon and it shows that when the double quotes are added around the last argument, gammu.exe is not even called at all. Problem is that the double quotes are required by gammu to send an sms with spaces in it. Any ideas? :-( Luke Why not try: $command = 'C:\path\to\gammu.exe --sendsms EMS 200 -text test1 test2'; -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php try double slashes for the path and wrap the pathin quotes if there are spaces in it. Or if possible get rid of the spaces in the folder names -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat Rule of thumb. Since PHP is for web access try to avoid spaces in any folder names you will be making accessable through either the site or php references. It makes life much much easier. Frank. Back from his binge drinking, and School applications after his layoff. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
