Question

Hi i am trying to execute a php script from cmd with some data given through a GET request but i cant get it to wait for completion of the command for some reason.
The code is.

<?php
error_reporting(0);

file_put_contents("query.txt", $_GET['query']);


exec("php loop1.php");
$result=file_get_contents("result.html");
echo $result;
?>

the code of loop1 is too complicated and not the point of the question.

Answer 1

Rather than using the implicit ‘php’ CLI tool perhaps you would have better luck via the more explicit path for the given install/platform, ie:

$phpcli = '/usr/local/bin/php';
exec($phpcli . ' loop1.php');

(be sure to first set $phpcli to contain the correct explicit path to PHP)