| Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? [message #176822 is a reply to message #176816] |
Fri, 27 January 2012 10:16   |
crankypuss
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On 01/25/2012 03:25 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 1/25/2012 2:47 PM, crankypuss wrote:
>> I'm sure there's a way to do this, probably some simple syntax I've not
>> run into and am too stupid to find in the manual or through google-fu or
>> otherwise.
>>
>> I'd like to issue an arbitrary shell command in a subroutine and have it
>> return an array that contains one element representing stdout and
>> another element representing stderr.
>>
>> For example, using tar to deal with a bazillion files, error messages
>> might not be seen when specifying verbose output; I'd like to collect
>> them and display after stdout.
>>
>> I've not found any syntax, yet, for redirecting to a PHP variable rather
>> than some file.
>>
>> tia.
>
> Take a look at the proc_open(). The examples show how do return stdout
> and stderr in separate streams.
Thanks Jerry, someone else mentioned that too, and it looks like it will
probably do the trick though I'm not sure how soon I'll be able to play
with it.
> It may be more than you need (this is made to be interactive between the
> PHP script and the process), but you don't HAVE to send data to the
> process.
I've never minded putting large amounts of effort into building
something with a simple general purpose interface, those efforts tend to
repay tenfold.
(On a personal note, haven't you retired yet? Or are you like me,
addicted to code for life?)
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