Question

Like the file says I am executing a python script from a PHP file sitting on my apache webserver. The example I have is extremely basic.

PHP file — test.php

<?php
echo "hello";
echo exec("/usr/local/bin/python2.7 test1.py");
?>

python script — test1.py

print "world"
fh = open ('testtest' ,'r')
for line in fh:
    print line

contents of — testtest

abcdefg

‘world’ prints when I don’t have the bottom 2 lines of test1.py but it stops printing as soon as I add for line in file: Thank you.
Edit: I’m trying to print the contents of testtest.

Answer 1

exec does not do what you expect it to do. The documentation states that it only returns the last line of output. It recommends use of passthru instead.