Php batch file call

[hullaballoo]

Hi!

I'd like to call a batch file from php, which moves a file from a location to another.
But I can't make it...
Could someone help me, please?
Thanx

 

[kenrbnsn]

What have you tried so far?

Platform?

Ken

 

[hullaballoo]

It's php 4.0, Windows XP.
The file movement should happen between network drives.

I've tried this:

$output= shell_exec('cmd.exe /c move c:\\test.doc x:\\');
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";

But nothing happens.
If I try this:

$output= shell_exec('cmd.exe /c type c:\\test.doc');
It works.

The "global" problem is to store documents in an Oracle database, and read/write them with a php client..

Any ideas?

Thanx

 

[sleipnir214]

Why not just move the file from within PHP using PHP's rename() function?

This script

<?php
rename ('c:/foo.txt', 'c:/temp/foo.txt');
?>

quite happily moves the file foo.txt from the root of c: to the directory temp.


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[hullaballoo]

I've also tried that.

if(!rename($filename, "../../../orashared/$filename"))
{
echo "failed to move file!";
}

It worked in the web document root of the php server.
But as I said, the file movement should happen between two network drives. I'd like to copy a file from the php webserver to the database server...
Any ideas?

 

[sleipnir214]

This script

<?php
rename ('c:/foo.txt', 'z:/foo.txt');
?>

works quite well for me.

Even

<?php
rename ('c:/foo.txt', '//servername/directory/foo.txt');
?>

works


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[hullaballoo]

Hi!

In this example, the 'c:' and 'z:' drives are network drives or local drives?

I tried both versions:

1. c: local drive on the client machine z: remote drive, mapped in the client machine.
2. c: local drive on the webserver, z: remote drive, mapped in the server machine

None of them worked...

The error message doesn't really say anything:

Warning: Rename failed (No such file or directory) in c:\webdocumentroot/pmflow/blob/main/blobwriter.php on line 82
failed to move file!

The code sample:

if(!rename('c:/setup.log', 'z:/'))
{
echo "failed to move file!";
}

Where are the files to move supposed to be?
Is it some kind of security issue?

 

[sleipnir214]

On my system, c:\ is a local drive and z:\ is a network drive.

This line you've posted:

if(!rename('c:/setup.log', 'z:/'))

is problematic. You're literally renaming the file, so you can't just specify a drive letter as your destination. You have to specify a drive letter, directory and filename as your destination. At a minimum:

if(!rename('c:/setup.log', 'z:/[red]setup.log[/red]'))


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[hullaballoo]

You're very kind that you help me, but anything I do, it doesn't work
I've tried your version -> The same error message..

Don't we need to set something up in the php.ini to enable the access to the file system?

The main problem is to move a file from the webserver to the database server, and after that to insert the file to the database as a BLOB. The only thing we need, the file movement, the other things are working...