Execute command line via php?

php wkhtmltopdf shellexecute
XS07 picture XS07 · Jul 23, 2011 · Viewed 13.9k times · Source

How I can execute those two command line via php:

wkhtmltopdf www.google.com gg.pdf

&

oofice -headless -nologo -pt cup-pdf my.doc

they both return a pdf file and download into my home directory.

I want to know the way to execute those command from my html page via php.

Thanks.

Answer

Pascal MARTIN picture Pascal MARTIN · Jul 23, 2011

You should take a look at the System program execution section of the manual : PHP provides several functions that can be used to launch external commands / programs, including :

  • exec() -- which can store the output of the command in an array
  • shell_exec() -- which returns, as a string, the output of the command
  • system() -- which echoes the output of the command

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