Possibility to execute applications on the server

[Salkin]

Hi!

I'm currently running abyss using PHP and another kind of file server for myself and friends when i am not home. Its fairly simple enough but the thing i really would like to do is execute a program on the server.

I have no idea how this would be possible to do, for example start notepad.exe on the server computer when someone sends a PHP or MySQL Query for example. I am not very good at PHP and have only written Visual Basic 6 on hobby levels.

If anyone has any ideas how this might be accomplished using plugins or third party applications or simply a function within Abyss I would be very grateful!

Regards Salkin
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[TRUSTAbyss]

You can execute shell commands in PHP, using a few functions. exec() is one of the functions you can use.

[rrinc]

I'll give you a short lesson.

If you want to get output of a command line app, use shell_exec().
If you just want to execute a program, use exec().
If you want to get the output of a command line app and directly output it (with no ability to manipulate that output), use system().

It sounds like me you want to use exec(). Try:

[admin]