On 09/08/07, Nuno Lopes <nlopess@php.net> wrote:
> Things are not that simple.
> I would advise you to read a more than one year thread about the very same
> subject: http://marc.info/?l=php-dev&m=113919491216978
>
> Nuno
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Quadling" <rquadling@googlemail.com>
> To: "PHP Developers Mailing List" <internals@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:43 AM
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Getting Windows exec to work better.
>
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25361
> >
> > I supplied a patch to fix this bug.
> >
> > The issue is NOT a PHP bug, but a "that's how it is on windows" issue.
> >
> > On *nix, if you want to exec a program via PHP whose program name or
> > parameters contain spaces, do you need to use a pair of double quotes
> > around the name/parameter? If so, are there any issues if you have
> > many sets of double quotes? If not, then this is a difference between
> > *nix and windows for the operation of PHP.
> >
> > With the patch it should deal with this, allowing PHP userland code to
> > operate in the same way on both platforms.
> >
> > If someone could take a look, I'd be grateful.
Ok. Thanks for the link. I have read similar notes but no response as
to why the patches supplied have NOT been committed.
IIRC ...
[2007-08-03 10:03:00] <Pierre> we don't care about 9x
[2007-08-03 10:03:27] <Pierre> RichardQ, did you test it on recent
windows too? I wonder if we can have more tests about this problem (if
possible)
Is PHP on 9x "supported"?
I'm using XP, and from the command line, calling ...
%comspec% /s /c ""program name here with spaces" "parameter here with spaces""
works fine.
e.g.
%comspec% /c ""C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
"http://www.google.com/search?q=php with spaces""
Loads internet explorer with the appropriate google page.
In PHP ...
<?php
exec('""C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
"http://www.google.com/search?q=php with spaces""');
?>
as does ...
cd "Program Files\Internet Explorer"
%comspec% /s /c "iexplore.exe "http://www.google.com/search?q=php with spaces""
But having to wrap your entire command line with quotes is not
consistent with *nix platforms. And for the sake of a few additional
characters in the exec method for windows (with the split for NT+ vs
9x), then this would save a lot of headache and once again, make PHP
windows compatible.
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Richard Quadling
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