I am trying to get a php script to run externally from an sbbs.ssjs script, I have this working on my Linux system but am having problems on my win7_x86 system.

I tried system.popen("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs);
which returns nothing

so I tried system.exec("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns 1

So, my question is, how do I trap the result under windows, it is handled automagically under Linux

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 15:57:26

my win7_x86 system.

I tried system.popen("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns nothing

Per the docs, system.popen does not work on Windows:

http://synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html#system_methods

There's probably a better way, but this might work:

system.exec('c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php ' + someargs + ' >c:\poop'); const f = new File('/poop');
f.open('r');
const poop = f.readAll();
f.close();

Now variable 'poop' will be an array of lines of output from your command.

If I were doing a lot of this, I'd probably make a function that:

- Takes the command-line to execute as an argument
- Generates a random tempfile name
- Runs the command and tacks on the redirect to the temp file
- Reads the temp file contents
- Deletes the temp file
- Returns the temp file contents

And then I'd probably still feel a bit gross.

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 15:57:26

my win7_x86 system.

If I were doing a lot of this, I'd probably make a function that:

- Takes the command-line to execute as an argument
- Generates a random tempfile name
- Runs the command and tacks on the redirect to the temp file
- Reads the temp file contents
- Deletes the temp file
- Returns the temp file contents

And then I'd probably still feel a bit gross.

perhaps a shower afterward would help :-)

Thanks for the info, now I gotta p, open a beer

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 03:57 pm

I am trying to get a php script to run externally from an sbbs.ssjs script, I have this working on my Linux system but am having problems on my win7_x86 system.

I tried system.popen("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns nothing

system.popen() only works on *nix-like OSes (not Windows).

so I tried system.exec("c:\php\php.exe c:\sbbs\myscript.php " + someargs); which returns 1

Is that literally what you tried, or did you double-up those backslashes, as would be necessary in a JavaScript string?

So, my question is, how do I trap the result under windows, it is handled automagically under Linux

system.exec() will just run the command. If you want the output of the command, you'll need to redirect the output to a file and read that file (on Windows).

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 15:57:26

So, my question is, how do I trap the result under windows, it
is handled automagically under Linux

we just went through this with tickit... we were trying to determine why addfiles was not working right for someone when tickit ran as an event but it (addfiles) did run properly when they manually ran tickit...

look at the tickit sources in the addfiles section and you'll see what i came up with that worked great and was left in tickit if anyone needed the facility later for troubleshooting...


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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 03:57 pm

system.exec() will just run the command. If you want the output of the command, you'll need to redirect the output to a file and read that file (on Windows).

No wonder I dislike windows LOL

Is there an equivelent to file_get_content('http://blah_blah.blah');
I was poking around some sources and found http_request.header but it didn't work.

I am just trying to include a little url data in index.ssjs

ie: template.myvar = whatever_grabs_the_url_contents('http://the.url/' + any_args);

so I can simply use @@myvar@@ in any web docs. ( I have done this on Linux without issue using system.popen

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 03:57 pm

system.exec() will just run the command. If you want the output of the command, you'll need to redirect the output to a file and read that file (on Windows).

No wonder I dislike windows LOL

Is there an equivalent to file_get_content('http://blah_blah.blah');
I was poking around some sources and found http_request.header but it didn't work.

I am just trying to include a little url data in index.ssjs

ie: template.myvar = whatever_grabs_the_url_contents('http://the.url/' + any_args);

so I can simply use @@myvar@@ in any web docs. ( I have done this on Linux without issue using system.popen

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Re: Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to Digital Man on Sun Feb 10 2019 12:29:40

Is there an equivalent to file_get_content('http://blah_blah.blah');

require('http.js', 'HTTPRequest');
const response = (new HTTPRequest()).Get('http://blah_blah.blah');

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Re: Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to Digital Man on Sun Feb 10 2019 12:29:40

Is there an equivalent to file_get_content('http://blah_blah.blah');

require('http.js', 'HTTPRequest');
const response = (new HTTPRequest()).Get('http://blah_blah.blah');

Thank you, I am getting closer, just gotta scrape some css stuffs in the response.

BTW where do I find your openweathermap.js? I looked on github under web4but seem to have lost my glasses :-o

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Re: Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to echicken on Sun Feb 10 2019 16:37:16

BTW where do I find your openweathermap.js? I looked on github under web4but seem to have lost my glasses :-o

It's a generic library and not part of the web interface. I put it in the Synchronet CVS under exec/load/. Note that the script doesn't do anything on its own to display information to a BBS user; it's a library for scripts that want to interact with the OWM API.

I did create a sidebar module for the web interface that uses this library; it's under web/sidebar/.extras/ in the github repo.

OpenWeatherMap use requires an API key, so you'll have to go to their site and sign up for one. Add a section to ctrl/modopts.ini like this:

[openweathermap]
api_key=your_api_key_here

The library is designed to cache data and respect the rate limits imposed on OWM free-tier accounts by default.

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Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to All on Sat Feb 09 2019 15:57:26

So, my question is, how do I trap the result under windows, it
is handled automagically under Linux

we just went through this with tickit... we were trying to determine why addfiles was not working right for someone when tickit ran as an event but it (addfiles) did run properly when they manually ran tickit...

look at the tickit sources in the addfiles section and you'll see what i came up with that worked great and was left in tickit if anyone needed the facility later for troubleshooting...

I did, thank you, knew how to redirect to files and read them, seems a long way around that mr gates imposed upon us :-Þ hopefully some future verion of winbloz has a comparable > /dev/null 2>&1 function or whatever ... I only bothered with all this cuz I broke a G string on my acoustic and got bored LOL

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Re: Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to echicken on Sun Feb 10 2019 16:37:16

BTW where do I find your openweathermap.js? I looked on github under web4but seem to have lost my glasses :-o

It's a generic library and not part of the web interface. I put it in the Synchronet CVS under exec/load/. Note that the script doesn't do anything on its own to display information to a BBS user; it's a library for scripts that want to interact with the OWM API.

which is what I want to play with :-)

I did create a sidebar module for the web interface that uses this library; it's under web/sidebar/.extras/ in the github repo.

I was looking in web/sidebar/.extras/openwethermap.ssjs and saw the reference to openweathermap.js but couldn't find it either on my system or in github. I'll grab it from cvs.synchro.net, thanks

OpenWeatherMap use requires an API key, so you'll have to go to their site and sign up for one. Add a section to ctrl/modopts.ini like this:

I have had an openweathermap key for a couple years that I use with my php scripts, I still use Duece's old runemaster nightshade, but I will look into the webv4, thanks :)

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Re: Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to echicken on Sun Feb 10 2019 16:37:16

BTW where do I find your openweathermap.js? I looked on github under web4but seem to have lost my glasses :-o

It's a generic library and not part of the web interface. I put it in the Synchronet CVS under exec/load/. Note that the script doesn't do anything on its own to display information to a BBS user; it's a library for scripts that want to interact with the OWM API.

BTW I have been working on incorporating the wttr.in python scripts or curl calls
into the web/nightshade templates. I have used both openweathermaps and wttr.in for sometime on some of my other sites under LAMP using both <iframe> and file_get_contents, just playing around. I will look closely at the .js ... I appreciate the help, thanks.

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Re: Re: run external php script
By: Mortifis to wkitty42 on Sun Feb 10 2019 17:12:24

look at the tickit sources in the addfiles section and you'll
see what i came up with that worked great and was left in
tickit if anyone needed the facility later for
troubleshooting...

I did, thank you, knew how to redirect to files and read them,
seems a long way around that mr gates imposed upon us :-Þ
hopefully some future verion of winbloz has a
comparable > /dev/null 2>&1 function or whatever ...

well, it does but it is slightly different ;)

I only bothered with all this cuz I broke a G string on my
acoustic and got bored LOL

i think i'd rather play with the G string as long as the female that owns it is close by and willing to play a "round or two" O:) -=B-)


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I only bothered with all this cuz I broke a G string on my
acoustic and got bored LOL

i think i'd rather play with the G string as long as the female that owns it is close by and willing to play a "round or two" O:) -=B-)

that might work for you but they know what I look like so they'd likely play the E eeeeee...... & leave me B eeeeee ... strings and run away :-P



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