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What is shell, am i thinking of the right thing

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:57 pm
by phpnovice
ok so i have a web server and on it a website (round of applause) you can upload a .wav file as a binary on the website which is stored in a mysql BLOB. now i want to pass the sql result to an encoder available on the web server. the encoder runs from the command line like so encoder -p password -t text file -d .wav file;

Now someone mentioned writing a shell script that will run when the user clicks a link, i dont have a clue how to use shell scripts, so if anyone out there can inform me if this is the right thing and maybe direct me to a good tutorial it would be appreciated.

All advise welcome!

James

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:49 pm
by m3mn0n
[php_man]exec[/php_man] or [php_man]win32api[/php_man] (if your a windows type of guy).