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[Kenneth Downs]

PMFJI, but I myself had no end of troubles with exec() and ended up using
backtick, something like:

$command = 'php batch_program.php';
`$command`;

For some reason exec() just never worked, and backtick did, so I did not
investigate further.

> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Jayesh Sheth wrote:
>
>> <?php
>> $output = '';
>> $exec = '';
>> exec('/usr/bin/php5_0 --help', $output, $exec);
>> if ($exec)
>> {
>> 	echo 'Yes';
>> }
>> else
>> {
>> 	echo 'No';
>
> Have you tried running something else?
> Trying to run PHP from within PHP may be a problem in and of itself.. At
> least something to consider.
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Kenneth Downs
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