Process Control Extensions
If you try to launch GUI apps from a service in Vista, you'll have lots of trouble. As a security feature, Vista mediates the interaction of services with the desktop using 'Interactive Services Detection'.
That means, if you are running PHP as a module of an Apache service, you won't be able to launch GUI apps using any method. This kind of thing just won't work:
$WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell");
$oExec = $WshShell->Run("notepad.exe", 7, false);
So, if you want to use Apache/PHP as a proxy for launching GUI apps, you'll need to run Apache as a console application.
First, if Apache is already installed as a service, you'll need to set it's startup type to "manual" using the services snap-in. (%SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc) Search for Services in the start menu search box.
Then add a shortcut to C:\apache\bin\httpd.exe (or wherever Apache is installed) to your Startup folder, and set that shortcut to start minimized. You can use an app like TrayIt! to force Apache down into the system tray.
Then use any of the methods outlined on the PHP website and you will be able to open a Windows application from PHP and see it's GUI.
System program execution
- Introducción
- Installing/Configuring
- Constantes predefinidas
- Program execution Functions
- escapeshellarg — Escapar una cadena a ser usada como argumento del intérprete de comandos
- escapeshellcmd — Escapar meta-caracteres del intérprete de comandos
- exec — Ejecutar un programa externo
- passthru — Ejecutar un programa externo y mostrar la salida pura
- proc_close — Cierra un proceso abierto por proc_open y devuelve el código de salida del proceso.
- proc_get_status — Obtiene información sobre un proceso abierto por proc_open
- proc_nice — Modificar la prioridad del proceso actual
- proc_open — Ejecutar un comando y abrir apuntadores de archivo para entrada/salida
- proc_terminate — Mata un proceso abierto por proc_open
- shell_exec — Ejecutar un comando mediante el intérprete de comandos y devolver la salida completa como una cadena
- system — Ejecutar un programa externo y mostrar su salida
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User Contributed NotesProgram execution
Joe Engel
31-Dec-2008 02:46
31-Dec-2008 02:46