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PHP Function to execute an external program and display raw output.

void passthru ( string $command [, int &$return_var ] )

The passthru() function is similar to the function in that it executes a command. This function should be used in place of or when the output from the Unix command is binary data which needs to be passed directly back to the browser.

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Powershell: how to implement standard switches?

For things like -WhatIf, we have $PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess() given to us by the [CmdletBinding] attribute. Are there other such tools or practices for implementing common command line arguments such as -Verbose, -Debug, -PassThru, etc?
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How to make a passthrough / passthru query editable?

In the Microsoft Access 2007 with an SQL Server Backend, we usually take a linked table from the SQL Server as Form.RecordSource of an editable form for a single table data modification. A local query is used for cross tables editions that combines…
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Passing data from C++ to PHP

I need to pass a value from PHP to C++. I think I can do with PHP's passthru() function. Then I want C++ to do something to that value and return the result to PHP. This is the bit I can't work out, does anyone know how to pass data from C++ to…
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How to pass the content of a variable trough an external command in php?

I have a variable that contains a long string. (specifically it contains a few kilobytes of javascript-code) I want to pass this string trough an external command, in this case a javascript-compressor, and capture the output of the external command…
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Why is exec() silently discarding bytes?

After a lot of struggling, I found out some behavior I can't explain / solve, so asking here for help. On our server (Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS with PHP 7.0.30), we're using some tools outside of the 'httpdocs', which are called using exec() to get their…
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PHP exec() not working - exiting early? no error?

i am using PHP to run exec() on a script which looks like this: exec("pdftk xx.pdf fill_form xx.fdf output xx.pdf flatten"); the strangest thing is that when i log in to ssh and put the command in manually - it works fine! it outputs a 224k pdf.…
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passthru() centos LD_LIBRARY_PATH

I am having troubles with the passthru() command when executing Java programs. More specifically with setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH using passthru. I tried: setting the .so file path directly like this: passthru("java …
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How to pass the string from php to tcl and execute the script

I want to pass the string from my php like And my tcl script set new [exec $str1]#str1 from php puts $new Is this Possible? Please let me know I'm stuck with this
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Omniauth, Devise, Rails, Facebook. Error: Not found. Authentication passthru

Evening - although this has come up in questions on here before, none of the solutions given fix this issue and believe I have covered most of the previous solutions. Basically, I am clicking on a 'sign up with facebook' link and getting the error…
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Can't find a Perl script from PHP/Apache

From a PHP script I want to run a Perl script. I can do this fine from the terminal (as root user) but when run from my application (www-data user) I can't. When developing the application on localhost I was able to do this fine as well, but the…
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Use function call in passthrough query?

I have a passthrough query in an Access 2010 application, which I'm using to call a stored procedure on a SQL Server backend. The stored procedure takes a parameter that I need to make dynamic. The problem is this: Execute spMyProc 'userName' works…
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PHP/passthru/mysqldump seems to timeout

I've got a PHP script that I call to run MySQL database backups to .sql files, TAR/GZip them and e-mail them to me. One of the database is hosted by a different provider than the one providing the web server. Everything is hosted on Linux/Unix. …
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Running a python script from php with system( ) or even passthru( ) produces no output. Why?

I need to run a python script (a log parser) on hundreds of log files, but I'm a PHP guy so I figured I'd write a little PHP script to grab the list of files from a directory and call the python script dynamically in a foreach loop. I've set…
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how to kill a passthru process upon the kill of a php script?

I'm running a linux command through PHP passthru(), example:
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PHP Imagemagick - passthru not working when trying to output a image without saving to the local folder

In the below code , iam trying to output a image through imagemagick processing. Here, iam applying a border radius to the input image. I am getting the output when iam saving a image to the output folder with the following code.
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