I am trying to get a php script to run externally from an sbbs.ssjs script, I have this working on my Linux system but am having problems on my win7_x86 system.

I tried system.popen("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs);
which returns nothing

so I tried system.exec("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns 1

So, my question is, how do I trap the result under windows, it is handled automagically under Linux

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 15:57:26

my win7_x86 system.

I tried system.popen("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns nothing

Per the docs, system.popen does not work on Windows:

http://synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html#system_methods

There's probably a better way, but this might work:

system.exec('c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php ' + someargs + ' >c:\poop'); const f = new File('/poop');
f.open('r');
const poop = f.readAll();
f.close();

Now variable 'poop' will be an array of lines of output from your command.

If I were doing a lot of this, I'd probably make a function that:

- Takes the command-line to execute as an argument
- Generates a random tempfile name
- Runs the command and tacks on the redirect to the temp file
- Reads the temp file contents
- Deletes the temp file
- Returns the temp file contents

And then I'd probably still feel a bit gross.

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 15:57:26

my win7_x86 system.

If I were doing a lot of this, I'd probably make a function that:

- Takes the command-line to execute as an argument
- Generates a random tempfile name
- Runs the command and tacks on the redirect to the temp file
- Reads the temp file contents
- Deletes the temp file
- Returns the temp file contents

And then I'd probably still feel a bit gross.

perhaps a shower afterward would help :-)

Thanks for the info, now I gotta p, open a beer

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 03:57 pm

I am trying to get a php script to run externally from an sbbs.ssjs script, I have this working on my Linux system but am having problems on my win7_x86 system.

I tried system.popen("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns nothing

system.popen() only works on *nix-like OSes (not Windows).

so I tried system.exec("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns 1

Is that literally what you tried, or did you double-up those backslashes, as would be necessary in a JavaScript string?

So, my question is, how do I trap the result under windows, it is handled automagically under Linux

system.exec() will just run the command. If you want the output of the command, you'll need to redirect the output to a file and read that file (on Windows).

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Re: Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to wkitty42 on Sun Feb 10 2019 17:12:24

look at the tickit sources in the addfiles section and you'll
see what i came up with that worked great and was left in
tickit if anyone needed the facility later for
troubleshooting...

I did, thank you, knew how to redirect to files and read them,
seems a long way around that mr gates imposed upon us :-Þ
hopefully some future verion of winbloz has a
comparable > /dev/null 2>&1 function or whatever ...

well, it does but it is slightly different ;)

I only bothered with all this cuz I broke a G string on my
acoustic and got bored LOL

i think i'd rather play with the G string as long as the female that owns it is close by and willing to play a "round or two" O:) -=B-)


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I only bothered with all this cuz I broke a G string on my
acoustic and got bored LOL

i think i'd rather play with the G string as long as the female that owns it is close by and willing to play a "round or two" O:) -=B-)

that might work for you but they know what I look like so they'd likely play the E eeeeee...... & leave me B eeeeee ... strings and run away :-P



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