Aww, I answered this one already too... I thought I beat everyone in as well, but
maybe the list is still slow??
Passthru() is better then exec() in this case, since he wants everything from locate,
I couldn't get the explode to work on my system because it didn't catch the "\n"
character very well, or I messed up in the code somewhere.
What would the explode look like for this:
<?php
$item = passthru('locate whatever');
$items = explode("\n",$item);
echo "<html><body><P>";
echo $items[0];
echo "</P></body></html>";
?>
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, September 3, 2004 2:44 pm
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Linux "locate" to html script?
> According to the manual, exec() "does not output anything. It
> simply
> returns the last line from the result of the command." The OP
> wants to
> display the output of 'locate' to the browser, so he should use
> passthru(), which displays all raw output.
>
> Jay Blanchard wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Does anyone have a script that can be used to call linux's locate
> > command
> > and display the results in a browser?
> >
> > I don't think it would be that hard and will make an effort today...
> > [/snip]
> >
> > exec("locate foo");
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ben Ramsey
> http://benramsey.com
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