From: "Wei, Alice J." on
Hi,

I am wondering if anyone on this list has made attempts of executing shell scripts using PHP.
Here is the code:

<?php

$command = "gcc -o hello.c";
exec($command);

?>

So far, the actual program is something simple that prints out Hello, World. I have tried using

// create a new cURL resource

$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/hello.c");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

All I got is the actual code content that is in one single long string. As for using the PHP snippet I have at the beginning of the email, all I get is a blank page, although it does not give me errors of the actual PHP program. Could anyone please tell me what problem I might be having here?

Anything is appreciated.

Alice
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Alice Wei
MIS 2009
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei(a)indiana.edu