LXXXVI. Program Execution Functions
Introduction
Those functions provides means to executes commands on the system itself, and means secure such commands.
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 argumentescapeshellcmd -- escape shell metacharactersexec -- Execute an external programpassthru -- Execute an external program and display raw outputproc_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 processproc_open -- Execute a command and open file pointers for input/outputproc_terminate -- kills a process opened by proc_openshell_exec -- Execute command via shell and return the complete output as a stringsystem -- Execute an external program and display the output
