Run .cmd or a .bat file from php?

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Scenario:

Have two files in "C:\TestFolder\"
->Batch.bat
->Command.cmd

Question:

How do i run these files?

What i tried so far and failed

PHP

Method1
$shell = new COM("WScript.Shell") or die("Requires Windows Scripting Host");
$exePath = ("C:\TestFolder\Batch.bat");//also tried Command.cmd
$shell->exec($exePath);

Method2
$result = `C:\TestFolder\Batch.bat`;//also tried Command.cmd

Method3
exec("C:\TestFolder\Batch.bat", &$Result);//also tried Command.cmd

Method4
system("cmd /c C:\TestFolder\Batch.bat");//also tried Command.cmd

Posted 28-Oct-13 8:23am

amarasat

Updated 28-Oct-13 8:24am

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ZurdoDev 28-Oct-13 14:56pm

Why would you want to? Browsers won't let you run files like that, for security reasons.

amarasat 28-Oct-13 15:39pm

Ok, this code is not on a browser!! An xml http request will be posted to a php server file and the server php file will run this batch file or command file.

This batch or command file will inturn launch a .exe application file.

Do you still think this is a browser issue?

ZurdoDev 28-Oct-13 15:41pm

You still want web code to run a local file.

What doesn't work about what you have tried? Errors??

amarasat 28-Oct-13 15:43pm

No errors!! nothing happens!! cmd.exe shows up in task messenger in all cases and hangs up the webpage.

ZurdoDev 28-Oct-13 16:08pm

You should see the UI of cmd then. Can you see what is happening?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Oct-13 15:21pm

What is "*.cmd"? Looks like obsolete file name pattern...
—SA

amarasat 28-Oct-13 15:42pm

Yes there was a executable like that. I have a xxx.bat and xxx.cmd files on desktop. The code inside them is Start OpcExecutable.exe!!

When webpage posts a launch event to php file, i want php file to run a .cmd or .bat file which inturn launches .exe.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Oct-13 16:07pm

You are right; I checked it up: the Shell still tread *.CMD as executable file. And even *.COM (!)...
Thank you for the note.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-10-28T10:14:00

Solution 1

Don't use "WScript.Shell". Simply use exec("MyBatch.bat"), or use any other executable file name. Please see:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php[^].

Better don't use absolute paths. Use the path relative to the page. There can be another problem: HTTP servers run applications in the sandboxed environment which won't allow to access any files beyond the root directory reserved for your side. Most likely, directory like "C:\TestFolder" is not legitimate.

—SA

Posted 28-Oct-13 10:14am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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amarasat 28-Oct-13 16:30pm

No, it didnt work. The same thing happens. cmd.exe is launched up in taskmessenger and the webpage hangs up and nothing happens after that. The xml http request hangs up.

I have already went through the manual and tried everything there. Nothing happens everything hangs up the page.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Oct-13 16:34pm

Did you move the file from "C:\TestFolder" to some location under the root?
Also, why CMD.EXE has been launched and how do you know that. It all has nothing to do with "CMD.EXE", which is just another application you should NOT use. And what's inside your batch? Of course the batch can be blocking, no doubt about that...
—SA