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CXVI. Program Execution Functions
Introduction
Those functions provide means to execute commands on the system itself, and means to secure such commands.
Requirements
No external libraries are needed to build this extension.
Installation
There is no installation needed to use these functions; they are part of the PHP core.
Runtime Configuration
This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
Resource Types
This extension has no resource types defined.
Predefined Constants
This extension has no constants defined.
See Also
These functions are also closely related to the backtick operator. Also, while in safe mode you must consider the safe_mode_exec_dir directive.
- Table of Contents
- escapeshellarg -- Escape a string to be used as a shell argument
- escapeshellcmd -- Escape shell metacharacters
- exec -- Execute an external program
- passthru -- Execute an external program and display raw output
- proc_close -- Close a process opened by proc_open() and return the exit code of that process.
- proc_get_status -- Get information about a process opened by proc_open()
- proc_nice -- Change the priority of the current process
- proc_open -- Execute a command and open file pointers for input/output
- proc_terminate -- kills a process opened by proc_open
- shell_exec -- Execute command via shell and return the complete output as a string
- system -- Execute an external program and display the output
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