[Anastas]

I'm trying to interface PHP with a database system. I need to be able to send commands to the command prompt using PHP. I have a computer on Windows 98 set up as a server with Apache and PHP installed, I would appreciate any hints as to how to send a command to the command prompt using PHP.

EDIT: I meant that I am looking for how to execute actual command prompt queries from PHP, not PHP queries - the best answer, I suppose, would be to the question of how can I just use PHP to send the command prompt the "dir" command?

Thanks in advance.

[nova912]

Originally Posted by Anastas

I'm trying to interface PHP with a database system. I need to be able to send commands to the command prompt using PHP. I have a computer on Windows 98 set up as a server with Apache and PHP installed, I would appreciate any hints as to how to send a command to the command prompt using PHP.

EDIT: I meant that I am looking for how to execute actual command prompt queries from PHP, not PHP queries - the best answer, I suppose, would be to the question of how can I just use PHP to send the command prompt the "dir" command?

Thanks in advance.

Maybe make the command go to a text file in a spacific directory then have php execute a small batch file or something that would execute what was in the text file?

[duesi]

There is a function called system() in PHP which does exactly this:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php

A small remark: if you use the word "query", this normally means a database command. "dir" is a shell command.

Happy coding!