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p4pratik
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Invoking third party applications

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Hi,
I am new to PHP trying to develop an application.
I have an application which records a voice and convert it to Text.
Can I call (invoke) this application programmatically using PHP
Please help me with any sample code / link demonstrating the same

Thanking in advance,

Kind regards

Pratik
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volka
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You might be interested in http://de2.php.net/exec
But keep in mind: Those applications are executed on the server, not on the client.
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Post by p4pratik »

Hi Volka,
Thank you very much for your response. I will just look into the context and get back.
However, is there a way out where I can make an application execute on the client

Thanking you in advance,

Kind Regards

Pratik
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Post by jayshields »

p4pratik wrote:Hi Volka,
However, is there a way out where I can make an application execute on the client
No, imagine what security holes that would produce if a web browser had the ability to launch an application on a clients machine.

I don't know what your situation is, but you could implement something like skype does so that the application (if you're coding it) associates itself with a certain type of web link (in this example callto:namehere).
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