How to embed PHP CLI's into a php script file.?

New Member Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 5

I'm working with this program written in php that is used to output games stats into html format. The php code requires a log file, that is generated by the game server to process the information. I downloaded php-4.4.2-installer and have it running on my pc. In order to process the information you begin with the following commands:

//Location where the program files are stored.
c:\mohstats-0.4.7\
//Run this command to process the file.
c:\mohstats-0.4.7> C:\php\php.exe -q mohstats.php "qconsole.log"

It then generates all the files fine and dandy...however all the files are on my hard drive.

My goal is to have the mohstats files and the log required to generate the html files on my webserver and some how run that command from script.php file. I'm not sure how I would embed the following code into a php file: //C:\php\php.exe -q mohstats.php "qconsole.log"// on my webserver.

registered · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 4:22 pm

Not all servers will let you do this, but this is how you can run command lines through PHP
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

Sorta redundant to be using PHP to run PHP.. may just need to pass the filename as a regular php request. i.e. mohstats.php?filename=qconsole.log
Of course, you have to protect the page so that other's cannot exploit it