[PHP] PHP + APACHE on Win2k

how can apache interpret PHP code placed inside HTML document... or on .php pages...? ive already installed APACHE in WIN2K and it works perfectly fine -- -- The information contained in this message (including any attachme

[PHP] Newbie... Executing UNIX commands...

im using PHP + APACHE on Linux Box i wonder what command in PHP can i use to execute Unix commands i got to read also exec(), system(), passthru(),popen(), and excapeshellcmd() but what if i want to use the command "ls" and store ALL output in a variable i thought system() is enough.