Question

I would like to ask you if i call any application with system(); in PHP5 is it possible to get result of that application directly to php? (instead of doing SomeApp >> file.txt – and reading file in PHP).

For example: system(‘lynx page.html’);
and i’d like to put result of ‘lynx page.html’ into variable.

Thank you.

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to use the backtick operator:

$out = `ls -a`;

You can also use shell_exec("command"), which is equivalent.