[K12OSN] PHP help

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Mon Jan 23 20:35:49 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:00 -0600, Doug Simpson wrote:
> Hello all you PHP programmers out there!
> 
> I have a program that I need to be able to run from inside a php script 
> that produces a web page.
> 
> The program allows you to set the pins on the parallel port to high or low 
> based on commandline.
> 
> Example:
> 
> lptout 34
> 
> will set datalines 2 and 6 high and leave the rest off.
> 
> I need to be able to accomplish this with php.
> 
> A web form asks for a number between 0 and 255 and passes it to the php 
> with a variable name "$bits"
> 
> So, I should be able to use:
> 
> system("lptout $bits" , $retval);
> 
> and it should do the same as running from the commandline:
> 
> lptout (bits) where bits is the number
> 
> The commandline method works, but I can't do it in PHP. Anyone got any 
> ideas?
> 
Does the lptout command actually get run by the php script?  Maybe the
PATH to lptout isn't correct.  Does it need to be executed as a certain
user in order to run?  Perhaps you have to use a setuid binary in this
situation.

-Toshio
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