: Mike Flynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: Rainer Bruch; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] executing an external program
>
>
> Some things to think about are:
> 1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
> 2. If yo
Some things to think about are:
1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
2. If you are going to use backslashes in a string, you need to escape
them, so the sample code your "specialist" gave you would need to be changed:
>shell_exec('c:\\programme\\microsoft office\\office\\winword.exe'