Using cmd.exe
Earlier someone asked me how he could use windows cmd.exe with PHP. People run into trouble as soon as there are quotes needed because there are special characters (>/&()[]{}^=;!’+,`~ and ) in the command. I do it like this
<?php
$result = `""c:\\my path\\prog.exe" "filename""`;
?>
In case you have to do it often you might want to wrap it into a little function like this
<?php
function cmd($command, $arguments = null)
{
$commandline = '';
foreach(func_get_args() as $word) {
$commandline .= '"' . $word . '" ';
}
$commandline = rtrim($commandline, ' ');
$commandline = '"' . $commandline . '"';
return `$commandline`;
}
// run blah.exe
cmd('blah.exe');
// run c:\my path\blah.exe with the arguments "foo" and "bar bar"
cmd('c:\\my path\\blah.exe', 'foo', 'bar bar');
?>