hello scott, Yes..! you can use system() comand
It goes like this system("touch filename.ext"); // creates a file and file will be owned by nobody If you want to change the file permission do the following chmod("filepath/filename", 755); decimal; probably incorrect chmod("filepath/filename", 0755); correct value of mode if you want to change the file owner chown(string filename, mixed user); Attempts to change the owner of the file filename to user user. Only the superuser may change the owner of a file. Returns true on success; otherwise returns false. Note : Windows does nothing it just returns true same as above you can also change the group chgrp(string filename, mixed group); Attempts to change the group of the file filename to group. Only the superuser may change the group of a file arbitrarily; other users may change the group of a file to any group of which that user is a member. Returns true on success; otherwise returns false. Note : Windows does nothing it just returns true since you want to create a file temporarily you can keep the file owned as nobody. After your work is over you can remove it. system("rm -f filename"); for more informations about the above commands go through the manuals cheers - JFK On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Scott Fletcher wrote: > Hi! > > I wanted to know if there is a PHP code or function that would allow the > PHP to issue the UNIX command. > > What I'm doing here is I'm trying to tell PHP to create a file by > issuing hte UNIX command then I can use the PHP to open the file to enter > the data. Once I'm done with the file, I can use the UNIX to run the script > in the file to communicate with the modem by executing the file. When I'm > done then I can open an another file to grab the data that had be received > by the modem and do the PHP things to do something with hte data. When > done, then I can use the PHP to tell UNIX to delete the file and Voila! > > Thanks, > Scott > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]