Have you tried using the backtick (``) operator? I don't know if it makes any difference, but it might be worth a try...
HTH, Mikey -----Original Message----- From: Andre Dubuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 January 2005 21:08 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Attempting to use 'passthru' or 'exec' function Hi, I'm trying to output a text file from a pdf file using an external function, pdftotext, using either PHP's 'passthru' or 'exec' functions. The following code sort of works (at least I see localhost busy doing something for about three seconds, but the expected output of 'content.txt' is empty. I used an idea found on the mailing list: I actually got some activity with 'sudo desired_function arg1 arg2'. File permissions are set wide open (apache:apache 777), safe_mode=off. What am I doing wrong? (Btw, the pdftotext function works fine on commandline). <?php $currentPdf = "2005-01-v2.pdf"; //print "$currentPdf"; if (file_exists($currentPdf)) { passthru("sudo /usr/bin/pdftotext /var/www/html/2005-o1-v2.pdf.txt /var/www/html//current.txt"); } /* Also tried the following using 'passthru' then 'exec': $pdf = file_get_contents($currentPdf); //print "<br><br>$Pdf"; passthru("sudo pdftotext /var/www/html/2005-o1-v2.pdf.txt /var/www/html/current.txt"); */ $current = "current.txt"; print "<br><br>Current Text: $current"; $string_text = file_get_contents("current.txt"); $new_text = nl2br("$string_text"); ?> Any help, pointers, admonitions gratefully accepted, Tia, Andre -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
