popen

Example

 resource popen ( string $command , string $mode ) 

Description

Opens a pipe to a process executed by forking the command given by command.

Return Values

Returns a file pointer identical to that returned by fopen(), except that it is unidirectional (may only be used for reading or writing) and must be closed with pclose(). This pointer may be used with fgets(), fgetss(), and fwrite(). When the mode is 'r', the returned file pointer equals to the STDOUT of the command, when the mode is 'w', the returned file pointer equals to the STDIN of the command. If an error occurs, returns FALSE.