Re: PHP help

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Elangovan's message of Tue Jun 22 23:15:31 +0200 2010:
> 
> Hi,
>      I am trying to run octave from PHP. I had the 
> "octave myfile.m" in a shell script and i gave shell_exec('sh
> shellscript.sh'). This did not call the octave.
> Then i tried shell_exec('octave myfile'). This did not work either.

There is also system. Maybe that has the advantage that stdout is echoed
directly. Eg try

system('/bin/sh shellscript.sh 2>&1'); // the 2>&1 ensures that you get error 
lines as well
If this doesn't work try the most simple command:
system('echo HELLO WORLD'); // ensure that system can be used at all

Report what you've seen

In any case you want to try adding 2>&1 to your shell_exec call.
Also add 2>&1. Try your shell_exec again then.

Marc Weber