Making Toolbox Calls to Mac OS-X?

[Vik Rubenfeld]

I'm an an experienced programmer, but a PHP newbie. If I have a PHP app
running on Apache/Mac OS-X, is it possible to make calls to routines in
the Mac OS toolbox? If so, could someone post a couple of lines of
sample code (or direct me to suitable documentation) ? Thanks in advance
for any info.


-Vik

[Jeffrey Silverman]

Re: Making Toolbox Calls to Mac OS-X?

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:15:09 +0000, Vik Rubenfeld wrote:
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> I'm an an experienced programmer, but a PHP newbie. If I have a PHP app
> running on Apache/Mac OS-X, is it possible to make calls to routines in
> the Mac OS toolbox? If so, could someone post a couple of lines of sample
> code (or direct me to suitable documentation) ? Thanks in advance for any
> info.
>
>
> -Vik[/color]

Don't know, don't use OSX, but maybe:
system()

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php

or
passthru()

http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.passthru.php

or a couple other similar funcs are what you are lookign for. Of course,
making calls to OSX-specific tools will *greatly* reduce the portability
of your code, but maybe that doesn't matter.

--
Jeffrey D. Silverman | jeffrey AT jhu DOT edu
Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/

[Vik Rubenfeld]

Re: Making Toolbox Calls to Mac OS-X?

Thanks for the info Jeff. The app is for internal use only so
portability isn't key.

-Vik

Jeffrey Silverman <jeffrey@jhu.ed u> wrote:
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> Don't know, don't use OSX, but maybe:
> system()
> http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php
>
> or
> passthru()
> http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.passthru.php[/color]