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EXTERNAL PROGRAM EXECUTION

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:17 am
by mario
the problem is pretty simple, I run my page on a browser. I need the page to execute an external program that is located in my local disk, how do I do it.

Re: EXTERNAL PROGRAM EXECUTION

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:03 am
by Chris Corbyn
mario wrote:the problem is pretty simple, I run my page on a browser. I need the page to execute an external program that is located in my local disk, how do I do it.
You can't. PHP cannot touch the remote computer like that. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news ;)

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:06 pm
by John Cartwright
By posting in a php forum we assume you wanted to do this via php.. are you open to other technologies?