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Executing a user interactive application on serverside

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:08 pm
by rathnaNrao
Hello!

I face a problem when I try to open a user interactive application on serverside using php file.

The scenario is:
When a client clicks a button, that should invoke notepad which should be user interactive on serverside.
But I can execute this notepad only at background process i.e., seen in the Task Manager ->Processes.

Please someone help me to figure out this....

Thank you

Regards,
N. Rathnavathi

Re: Executing a user interactive application on serverside

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:25 pm
by requinix
Not a PHP question: it has to do with how your web server is set up to run on the machine.

If it's as a service - likely - then it needs to run in interactive mode. I don't know of any easy way to change that but there's probably something you can set in the registry.

Re: Executing a user interactive application on serverside

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:38 pm
by rathnaNrao
I've to execute the notepad on serverside using php. I tried using exec(), system(), passthru() functions to invoke exe on serverside. But they run exes in Task manager.

Thank you

Regards,
N. Rathnavathi

Re: Executing a user interactive application on serverside

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:59 pm
by requinix
rathnaNrao wrote:I've to execute the notepad on serverside using php. I tried using exec(), system(), passthru() functions to invoke exe on serverside. But they run exes in Task manager.
And you're restating this because...?