how can I execute command wkhtmltopdf http://google.com /tmp/test.pdf from server ie http://localhost/test.php, when I do it from command line it works. I tried system() and exec() functions but did not work. When I use system('touch /tmp/test') file is created. What stops wkhtmltopdf? Is it php, apache?
Make sure that the user the script is running as knows where wkhtmltopdf bin is.
You can find out where it is with the which command.
which wkhtmltopdf
Also you can get the return status of a command by setting a variable equal to it
e.g.
$last_line = system('ls');
echo $last_line
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I would like to use the wkhtmltopdf for HTML to PDF conversion.
When I have tried to convert it via linux terminal, it works fine.
But when I have tried with the php script it does not work.
I am trying execute the binary directly.
here is the code I am trying with PHP.
exec('/home/binary_loc/wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com /home/user/output.pdf');
My binary is at the same folder where "index.php" exist.
I have tried to fetch the version of wkhtmltopdf binary with PHP, then it return the version.
But i don't able to understand why not it work to execute with php for pdf.
Here is code for version check using php.
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
$cmd = "./wkhtmltopdf --version";
$t = shell_exec($cmd);
echo $t;
exit()
Do anyone has solution regarding it??
I want this because this will work in the shared hosting too. No need to install the wkhtmltopdf in the server.
Exec probably doesn't have permission to execute the file. PHP usually runs as either apache or nobody, rather than your user account. You'll have to make sure the execute bit is set for whatever user it runs under. You can use chmod 755 wkhtmltopdf from the directory it's under, to grant read and execute to all users.
Note that on some shared hosting, exec() is disabled. Check with your host to make sure you have access to it.
Define the complete path to the wkhtmltopdf executable and the complete path to the output folder.
To debug try something like this:
shell_exec("/home/binary_loc/wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com /home/user/output.pdf > /home/user/debug.log 2>&1");
pipe the error in a file
I have downloaded Tesseract OCR, installed it on windows and set its path variable and test it as well.
https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php
I have downloaded its php script too and did some basic testing.
echo $this->buildTesseractCommand();
exec(trim($this->buildTesseractCommand()));
The command
echo tesseract C:\xampp\htdocs\OCR\test\images\hello.png C:\xampp\htdocs\OCR\test\temp\29847.txt
where hello.png is file to read characters from and 29847.txt is random file generated from cmd in which output is stored. although the same command is working directly through cmd.
But sadly the command is not working through php and no .txt file is generated , but when I paste the same in my command prompt, it works and file is generated.
I have tried system(), exec() and passthru() functions to run command but its not working in any :(
Any idea how to run it or any alternatives ?
I want to execute a command in ubuntu terminal. When I directly run the command in terminal, it runs without any problem. But What I actually want to do is to execute this command via PHP.
chdir('/home/thilini/FYP/testone/bin/');
exec('./mindtct input_folder/filename output_folder/filename');
The php code I wrote is shown above. I am using ubuntu 10.10 and the LAMP configuration. chdir is working fine and I have successfully moved from /var/www/ to /home/thilini/FYP/testone/bin/ (where I have the executable mindtct). But exec is not working. (mindtct is an executable which convert the file in the input folder to another format and store it in the output_folder under the given name).
What am I doing wrong?
The problem was an issue in the path. A forward slash was missing.
If you're running below php 5.4,check "safe_mode" in your ini file.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.functions.php
You probably want
exec('./mindtct input_folder/filename output_folder/filename');
Maybe you should set error_reporting(-1) in your script so you get some errors
You want to use shell_exec(), not exec().
shell_exec() executes a command in the terminal, whereas exec() opens an application.
$results = shell_exec('./mindtct input_folder/filename output_folder/filename');
print_r($results);
This will execute the command, store it in results, and then print_r the results in array format.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php
I am trying to get the path to certain exe's using the where command in the command prompt on windows.
Here is what i did in command prompt.
where g++
where java
where javac
where python
All of these are giving the correct output of the path in the console window which indicated that I have set the environment variables correctly.
But now When i try to run the commands using the shell_exec() function in PHP, only the call to where java and where python gives the correct output. I was even able to successfully execute a respective test file using these commands through PHP.
But strangely, where g++ and where javac give this error in the browser when run through PHP:
INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s).
Also if I get the outputs of these two commands on the console and then copy that into my script to compile a c++ or java file, it works perfect. But the where command returns the above INFO when run through the PHP script.
I am running the server on localhost using XAMPP. Any idea what is missing?
I'm currently using the Pygments for PHP plugin that is located here: http://derek.simkowiak.net/pygments-for-php/.
The line that actually calls Pygments from that code is an exec() passed: pygmentize -f html $extra_opts -l $language $temp_name as the command. This all works fine, and I get back the output and it is formatted by the plugin.
What I would like to happen at the same time is for Pygments to create an image of it, so I pass exec() a similar command: pygmentize -f png $extra_opts -l $language -o $full_image_path/$output_file.png $temp_name This is where I run into a problem. The image never shows up in the expected folder.
However, if I var_dump() that command string before I exec() it and take it and run it straight from the command line, it works fine.
I have tried echoing exec('whoami') which tells me that the PHP user is www-data. I've tried giving permissions to www-data and changing ownership to www-data on the folder where I store the images. I've also tried changing permissions to 777 just to see what would happen, and the answer is nothing.
Is there something I'm missing? I'm running out of ideas to try. Thank you!
Edit: Another thing that I've checked is the output from the exec command, and the return value. It outputs an empty array, and it returns 1 as the return value.
Edit 2: After seeing that that directory should be writeable/readable for the PHP user, is it possible that pygments doesn't have permission to write it as a specific user? I'm not sure this makes sense, as when I run it myself it works fine, and in fact, when PHP runs it with the HTML lexer, it is able to run. I'm not very experienced in Python, so I don't know if this is a potential issue.
I guess you cannot do it like this.
$output_file.png
Try
$file = $output_file.".png"
and substitute in the exec
Ended up being an issue with the font that was installed for use by the www-root user. Apparently the one that is used by default for Pygments was installed only for the user that I was running as when I use the command line.
The way I was able to figure this out, was running
exec("$command 2>&1", $out, $code);.
The extra 2>&1 redirects stderr into the output for me to see the issue.
The $out parameter showed the FontNotFound error that pygments was throwing.
I changed the font that Pygments used via the command line using: full,style=manni,cssclass=pygmentize_kbOKBd,font_name='DejaVu Sans Mono' -l php -o /srv/www/path/to/images/uploads/2513732976ad4b7.02729290.png /tmp/pygmentize_kbOKBd after finding which fonts I had available to me.
To see which fonts I had available to me as the user running the script, I just ran fc-list in an exec() command for Ubuntu, and checked the output of that for the list of available fonts.