How can PHP be used to create a number of commands in the terminal? For example, if I want to change the permissions on a folder or a file, I might run
Sudo Chmod 777 FileName
from the command line. How could I do this with PHP?
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I did a research but it seams i was searching for the wrong idea. that's why i posted the question. – dori naji May 15 '12 at 10:19
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1Did you search for `execute command with php`?? – Lix May 15 '12 at 10:19
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no i was seaching for something similar to "run text file in terminal php" and the results was a bit confusing – dori naji May 15 '12 at 10:21
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Look at exec, system etc: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.exec.php
Obviously, if you are going to use sudo for root access stuff (not recommended) then you would need to either supply a password somehow or set the user which PHP is running as to not require a password.
It may be better to use an SSH call for this and supply the command to execute via that command.
To sum up, I really don't recommend using PHP (or any language for that matter) to run a series of commands which then uses sudo
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4@Lix - at least in this case the answer does expand with some do's and don'ts caveats. – Kev May 15 '12 at 16:05
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To give permission to folder or file in php use following line of code
chmod($file,0777);
this will change the permission of file or folder.
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