The command below is a shell command that works for me.
php -f /home3/kintest2/www/project/keygen_msql_adjuster.php
What i would like to do is the make this command run from a php file.
Any hints are welcomed
4 Answers
What's wrong with:
include('/home3/kintest2/www/project/keygen_msql_adjuster.php');
or is there a particular reason you want to fire off a whole new PHP interpreter instance?
I'd note that a good reason not to use include is because anything declared therein will pollute your current instance's namespace.
On the flip side, calling shell_exec or similar can be a massive security hole. If your code is running in a restricted environment that may not matter, though.
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Congolese Media
I'm trying to execute php from another php file. What the file does is it updates only one database record that satisfies some conditions. But I want the file to continuously execute this file in a loop
You can use backticks or system or shell_exec or popen, depending on what you want to do with the process you start.
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Congolese Media
I'm trying to execute php from another php file. What the file does is it updates only one database record that satisfies some conditions. But I want the file to continuously execute this file in a loop
complex857
Are think of some kind of a scheduled job, that would kick in in every few minutes/hours? If you are, take a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
I think you are looking for shell_exec:
echo shell_exec ( "php -f /home3/kintest2/www/project/keygen_msql_adjuster.php" );
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Congolese Media
This code works well for any other command. When I use the shell command above it doesn't do anything the page just seems to load for every... Any ideas on why ?
jeffjenx
@CongoleseMedia Could potentially be a permissions problem on that file or folder, or it could be an environment problem, like having safe_mode enabled.
You might also consider using a command-running library that handles errors and things properly: https://github.com/kamermans/command
Then you can run the program like this:
use kamermans\Command\Command;
$cmd = Command::factory('php')
->option('-f', 'keygen_msql_adjuster.php')
->setDirectory('/home3/kintest2/www/project')
->run();
Or, more simply put:
use kamermans\Command\Command;
$cmd = Command::factory('php -f /home3/kintest2/www/project/keygen_msql_adjuster.php');
Unlike PHPs built-in methods, this method will throw a PHP Exception if the command fails, which you can then catch and handle if need be:
use kamermans\Command\Command;
use kamermans\Command\CommandException;
$cmd = Command::factory('php')
->option('-f', 'keygen_msql_adjuster.php')
->setDirectory('/home3/kintest2/www/project');
try {
$cmd->run();
} catch (CommandException $e) {
die("The command failed: ".$e->getMessage()."\n");
}
exec,shell_exec.shell_exec()