Comments on: Execute Linux commands in PHP by using backticks

By: real_phantom

real_phantom — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:47:36 +0000

Nice tips. Thanks for sharing this great information.

By: rvdavid

rvdavid — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:13:49 +0000

Hi Subha,

A quick google search will yield some useful results.
I think this will help you, but feel free to check out the other results.
http://www.hypexr.org/linux_date_time_help.php

HTH. Good luck.

By: Subha

Subha — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:14:06 +0000

Hi every one
I have developed a website and from that site I need to change the Linux System Time abut unable to chage the time.

By: Luka

Luka — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:38:58 +0000

Hmm it seems this only work in local directory,it can run files from other directory.Well could be beacuse of whm security settings.

By: ruby

ruby — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:58:45 +0000

I tried executing a shell script via php to open applications like firefox,gvim. It is executing in the command line but not in the browser . Can any one tell me what is the solution for this?

Thanks in advance

By: john

john — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:29:33 +0000

Are you pushing the listing (ls) to a txt file? Perhaps you should try listing the directory:

$comand = ?ls -la /var/www/?;
$output = array();
exec($comand, $output);
print_r($output);

By: deisefontoura

deisefontoura — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:25:28 +0000

It won’t work for me

$comand = “ls -la >> /var/www/deise.txt”;
$output = array();
exec($comand, $output);
print_r($output);

The result in the screen is:
Array()

Any ideas?

By: Hasan

Hasan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:01:58 +0000

Do I need to change some configuration in php.ini ???

By: ahmed

ahmed — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:05:33 +0000

thank you man ilove you php

By: rvdavid

rvdavid — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:05:10 +0000

hmmm that seems odd, it should work, but well some servers I’ve come accross have disabled such php features. Maybe that’s the problem.

for example, the following excerpt produced some output for me.

– code
$cmd = 'ls -la'; // the linux command $files = array(); // init the output array exec($cmd, $files); // execute the linux command and put the output in output array

// dump the output echo '

';
 print_r($files);
 echo '

';

Anyway, check out the php manual site for more info on exec, perhaps they’ll have some more information for you.
http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php