Execute php file from another php

Question

I want to call a PHP file that starts like   lt  php function connection           Statements     I call from the PHP like this    lt  php exec    opt lampp htdocs stuff name php      gt    I get    line1- gt  cannot open    No such file line 3   Connection  not found line 4 Syntax errror        Why doesn t this correctly execute the name php file

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It s trying to run it as a shell script  which interprets your  lt  php token as bash  which is a syntax error   Just use include   or one of its friends   For example  in a php put    lt  php print  one   include  b php   print  three     gt    In b php put    lt  php print  two     gt    Prints   eric dev     php a php onetwothree

User · Answer

exec is shelling to the operating system  and unless the OS has some special way of knowing how to execute a file  then it s going to default to treating it as a shell script or similar  In this case  it has no idea how to run your php file  If this script absolutely has to be executed from a shell  then either execute php passing the filename as a parameter  e g  exec    usr local bin php -f  opt lampp htdocs     name php        or use the punct at the top of your php script     usr local bin php  lt  php       gt

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Sounds like you re trying to execute the PHP code directly in your shell  Your shell doesn t speak PHP  so it interprets your PHP code as though it s in your shell s native language  as though you had literally run  lt  php at the command line   Shell scripts usually start with a  shebang  line that tells the shell what program to use to interpret the file  Begin your file like this      usr bin env php  lt  php   Connection function connection        Besides that  the string you re passing to exec doesn t make any sense  It starts with a slash all by itself  it uses too many periods in the path  and it has a stray right parenthesis   Copy the contents of the command string and paste them at your command line  If it doesn t run there  then exec probably won t be able to run it  either   Another option is to change the command you execute  Instead of running the script directly  run php and pass your script as an argument  Then you shouldn t need the shebang line   exec  php name php

User · Answer

This came across while working on a project on linux platform   exec  wget http    lt url to the php script gt     This runs as if you run the script from browser   Hope this helps

User · Answer

exec  wget http    lt url to the php script gt    worked for me    It enable me to integrate two php files that were designed as web pages and run them as code to do work without affecting the calling page

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