How to open programs

[Kaiory]

Is it possible to open and or close a program through a certain weblanguage?

[Maddox]

system(), exec(), and passthru() in PHP, I'm not sure about other languages.

[Kaiory]

Thanks a lot maddox

[MeltingWax]

in perl its command();

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

I have a similar question to this...in PHP...how can you start a process with certain environment variables?

[Adron]

I have a similar question to this...in PHP...how can you start a process with certain environment variables?

A post on a page at the php site says:

nehle at dragonball-se dot com
21-Oct-2003 11:59
Remember that some shell commands in *NIX needs you to set a TERM enviroment. For example:
<?php
exec('top n 1 b i', $top, $error );
echo nl2br(implode("\n",$top));
if ($error){
  exec('/usr/bin/top n 1 b 2>&1', $error );
  echo "Error: ";
  exit($error[0]);
}
?>
This will echo "Error: TERM enviroment variable not set. " To fix it, add  TERM=xterm (Or some other terminal) to the exec-statement, like this

<?php
exec('TERM=xterm /usr/bin/top n 1 b i', $top, $error );
echo nl2br(implode("\n",$top));
if ($error){
  exec('TERM=xterm /usr/bin/top n 1 b 2>&1', $error );
  echo "Error: ";
  exit($error[0]);
}
?>