Calling bash script from php

[mcplaayer]

Hey guys, I've got a bash script that I need to run and collect output from, except that it needs to be called from an php enviornment.

I would like to collect the output from this bash script(stdout) and store it into an array in php.

Anybody know how to do this?

The shell call would be:

echo `get-All.sh $prod $type`;

 

[Deleted member 65081]

Call the script with exec() making sure to give it an array to populate with the output.

 

[mcplaayer]

If my Apache server isn't set up to allow exec calls, would I result in a blank page? Because that's what just happened when I tried using exec...

Maybe I could use system() instead.

 

[Deleted member 65081]

Well what did you do with the resulting output from the exec() command? If you pass it to an array like you were talking about, you could do something like...

<?php

echo '<pre>';
print_r( $output ); // where $output is the array passed to exec()
echo '</pre>';

?>

...to test and see what the output is.

Or you could do something like shell_exec() with the echo call and just output everything as one big chunk, rather then an array.

 

[mcplaayer]

Well I had other content on this particular page that did not display...
I'll give shell_exec a shot.

 

[mcplaayer]

Hey guys,

Now I have to do the same thing in Perl. Is there a Perl equivalent of the exec() call in PHP that also does the nice formatting and auto array storage?

Thanks