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Asked: 2026-05-20T11:05:33+00:00

I have tried calling a windows program several ways and I have gotten the

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I have tried calling a windows program several ways and I have gotten the same result each time.

The program opens up on my machine (without a GUI) but never closes each means that the browser is forever loading.

Though when executing the query string manually through the command line prompt the program closes. Not only that, but the program doesn’t actually execute

(it is just launched i.e. there aren’t any results).

I just want to know the proper way of starting a program with switches through PHP.

Here is the query string that works (closes the program after executing):

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Softinterface, Inc\Convert PowerPoint\ConvertPPT.exe" /S 
"C:\Users\Farzad\Desktop\upload\test.ppt" /T "C:\Users\Farzad\Desktop\upload\test.png" /C 18
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  1. Editorial Team

    If the program never closes, then PHP can’t return a value from exec(). The program must close. Chances are there is a problem accessing your files on your desktop in this manner. It will be executed with whatever permissions the webserver has defined.

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

    You might consider the advanced functionality of proc_open(). It will give you access to all the necessary pipes, but I don’t think that will help you in this situation.

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