Hi,

this is piss easy

does anyone know how you would run a system command and output it on the .php file ?

e.g. if i wanted to run 'w' how would i do that?

here is an example in perl
http://drirc.net/monitor/sys.pl

this would be for linux

There are a bunch you could use. Check them out here (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php) at www.php.net. exec and system are the two that come to mind right away.

Frank

Use passthru(), as exec() won't return all info.

exec() will output your data in desired file

Use backtick function in PHP. Here is a quote from the PHP Manual:


PHP supports one execution operator: backticks (``). Note that these are not single-quotes! PHP will attempt to execute the contents of the backticks as a shell command; the output will be returned (i.e., it won't simply be dumped to output; it can be assigned to a variable).


$output = `ls -al`;
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";



Drop me a PM if you need any help regarding this or any other function.

--Omair

tthx

No Problem :)