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How can PHP be used to create a number of commands in the terminal? For example, if I want to change the permissions on a folder or a file, I might run
Sudo Chmod 777 FileName
from the command line. How could I do this with PHP?
Look at
exec,systemetc: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.exec.phpObviously, if you are going to use
sudofor root access stuff (not recommended) then you would need to either supply a password somehow or set the user which PHP is running as to not require a password.It may be better to use an
SSHcall for this and supply the command to execute via that command.To sum up, I really don’t recommend using PHP (or any language for that matter) to run a series of commands which then uses
sudo