Calling LibreOffice from php exec on Mac using MAMP Pro

Asked Mar 25 '15 at 10:00

Active Mar 25 '15 at 10:00

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ok so I have an application that I need to test locally using my MAMP Pro installation and LibreOffice (ver 4.4.1)

when I execute the following commands in terminal it works just fine:

cd /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS

./soffice --headless --convert-to pdf /Users/myusername/Sites/my-site/_plugins/site-pages/public/build-pages/temp/*.docx --outdir /Users/myusername/Sites/my-site/_plugins/site-pages/public/build-pages/temp

but when I try to replicate this in my php script like so:

$myCommand = '/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf /Users/myusername/Sites/my-site/_plugins/site-pages/public/build-pages/temp/*.docx --outdir /Users/myusername/Sites/my-site/_plugins/site-pages/public/build-pages/temp';

## create pdf's
exec($myCommand,$output);
foreach($output as $line){
print $line;
}

It doesn't work, what am I doing wrong ?

asked Mar 25 '15 at 10:00

I-CRE8

What do you mean by 'doesn't work' ? Any Errors ? – Jonas Czech Mar 25 '15 at 10:37
@JonasCz The page hangs and no pdf's are produced – I-CRE8 Mar 25 '15 at 11:25
Any errors in the logs ? – Jonas Czech Mar 25 '15 at 14:58
none that I can see, is there a specific log I should look at ? – I-CRE8 Mar 25 '15 at 19:48

Calling LibreOffice from php exec on Mac using MAMP Pro

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