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[clocker1996]

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

[ffeingol]

There are a bunch you could use. Check them out here at www.php.net. exec and system are the two that come to mind right away.

Frank

[AlCapone_yg]

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

[combs]

exec() will output your data in desired file

[Omair Haroon]

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

[clocker1996]

tthx

[Omair Haroon]

No Problem