| Re: redirect stdout and stderr to PHP variables? [message #176827 is a reply to message #176822] |
Fri, 27 January 2012 13:49   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 1/27/2012 5:16 AM, crankypuss wrote:
> 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?)
Nope, still too young to retire. I don't know what I'd do with myself :)
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