Those functions provides means to executes commands on the
system itself, and means secure such commands.
No external libraries are needed to build this extension.
There is no installation needed to use these
functions; they are part of the PHP core.
This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.
This extension has no resource types defined.
This extension has no constants defined.
Table of Contents
- escapeshellarg - escape a string to be used as a shell argument
- escapeshellcmd - escape shell metacharacters
- exec - Execute an external program
- passthru -
Execute an external program and display raw output
- proc_close -
Close a process opened by proc_open and return the exit code of that
process.
- proc_get_status -
Get information about a process opened by proc_open
- proc_nice -
Change the priority of the current process
- proc_open -
Execute a command and open file pointers for input/output
- proc_terminate -
kills a process opened by proc_open
- shell_exec -
Execute command via shell and return complete output as string
- system - Execute an external program and display output