I’m trying to run PHP script (from a Linux server) that will download a file through direct download link and save it on my server. here is the script I’m using: for some reason it doesn’t work for me, any suggestions ? Answer You need to verify that the ports are open on your firewall and u…
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Execute screen command returning `Cannot make directory ‘/var/run/screen’: File exists`
I’ve no idea what is happening. I can run any other shell command through the exec() command and it works fine. It’s clearly something to do with permissions somewhere, but I’m unsure what. I’ve tried this on many different servers and some of them work fine and some don’t. All w…
Installing PHP in my home directory
I need to install PHP in my home directory, without polluting any directory outside my home [very important requirement!]. In the system there is already an older version of PHP running. I found instructions here: http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2013/01/25/installing-php-and-apache-module-under-home/ I am runn…
standard function to translate iso-639 codes to language name?
I guess there should be some standard method for this, just to avoid everybody retyping dull constants for their applications. 😉 I am looking for a function (usable in a php web app on linux) that can take two ISO639 language codes and returns the name of the first language in the second language, i.e. foo(&#…
Start background processes from a background process
I have a PHP script say test.php in linux Ubuntu, in this PHP script I use shell_exec() to start several background processes. When I execute php test.php, the background processes are started as expected, but when I run php test.php &, those several background processes are not started. Is it not a suppo…
getting pid of spawned exec in phing
I am using phing and running selenium server via ExecTask. Sometimes I need to stop running server by killing its process. Is there a possibility in phing of getting PID of process spawned in ExecTask ? Answer No, ExecTask cannot give the pid of spawned processes directly. It can only return it’s exit s…
Tracking php process on framework
I have a php framework is running on linux machine basicly every requests redirect to index.php by .htaccess One of my php started to run %100 CPU i want to track which progress is that but when i check process with ps aux | grep 23791 As normal, request redirect to index.php.But i have to find which request …
PHP run linux “less” command via exec – binary file warning
I have to convert some PDF files to TXT. I end up with “less” command, because for example pdftotext has some problems with tables in PDF. The problem is that when I ran the command from exec function (or shell_exec/system), less just showing me information, that selected PDF is binary file and re…
Convert JPG to TIFF using ghost script
i am trying to convert images from .jpg to .tiff using ghost script.And i have executed following command to do that. But i am getting this errors. What is the problem with my command? Any suggestion and guidance will be appreciated.I have to convert my images using ghost script because if i am using the imag…
PhantomJS doesn’t work in PHP through browser (but does via command line, and even by running PHP through command line)
I’m trying to get PhantomJS to run via PHP. When I run the JavaScript file directly through the command line, it works fine. When I run php render_html.php in the command line, which just runs an exec(), it works fine. However, when I try opening this php file in the browser, it does nothing. I don̵…