Question

I’ve got an easy php script :

<?php
    $command = "git pull";
    $output = shell_exec($command);
    echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
?>

And I want to call it by pressing button :

<form metod="post" action="/pull.php">
   <button type="submit">Pull changes</button>
</form>

And I want to get output right under the button or replace button with output but I don’t want to go to /pull.php I just want to run script and get output. How can I make it ?

Answer 1

You need to use javascript’s XMLHTTPRequest (or better yet jQuery’s get), in either case JavaScript will let you load content dynamically from another url.