Is there a way to kill a Windows process, say calc.exe, with PHP without using exec?
exec calls an external program, I try to avoid using that command unless necessary.
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There is.
Use the
W32apiPHP extension, which provides access to the Win32 API – then use theTerminateProcess()API after aquiring a handle to the process.