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Function Reference
Process Control Extensions
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Process Control Extensions
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System program execution
Table of Contents
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Resource Types
Program execution Functions
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 the complete output as a string
system
— Execute an external program and display the output