Re: [PHP] Help with exec.

On 3 March 2010 13:01, Paul Halliday <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to pipe some data to an external application.
>
> I have this:
>
> while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($theData[0])) {
>    $src_ip[] = $row[0];
>    $dst_ip[] = $row[1];
>    $sig_desc[] = $row[2];
>
>    $rec ++;
>    if ( $rec == $recCount ) {
>            break;
>    }
> }
>
> for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($src_ip); $i++) {
>    $tmpResult[] = "$sig_desc[$i],$src_ip[$i],$dst_ip[$i]\n";
> }
>
>
> The external program is called like:
>
> cat results.csv | theprogram outputfilename
>
> Is there a way mimic this w/o outputting $tmpResult to a file first?
>
> Thanks.
>
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I believe you can use popen() to open "theprogram" and pipe to it the
content and read back the results. All without writing to any files.



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