PHP - Php Linux Unable To Open

What are your feelings regarding Linux desktop distros, and their ability to break through to mainstream usage? I started using Ubuntu about 6 or 7 years ago, and have fooled around with some other distros, but at least for me Ubuntu always seemed the best. I've got my 65 year old mom using it, and my 11 year old son playing with Kubuntu (and learning python!). I don't really consider us normal though; normal being almost too dumb to do more than check email and get on the internet.   I've managed to fully switch over to Ubuntu on all of my computers, with the exception of running Windows in a VM for Photoshop and Illustrator. Since I don't use those programs every day, there are a lot of days where I don't see Windows. I never really had a problem with Windows, except for Windows 3.1 was kind of a drag. Getting on the internet on a 56K modem on Windows 95 wasn't any fun either, but that wasn't Windows' fault. I never had the crashes and bad experiences people like to claim makes Windows suck. My main reason for abandoning Windows is just to be more involved with Linux, and hopefully reach Linux guru status someday.   I really never liked Macs. I bought one 3 or 4 years ago, and it just felt like I was paying a lot of money for a glorified (and over-hyped) linux distro. I really never liked the feel of the Finder. At the time there was no awesome text editor, and I bought a couple just to test out what I could find. Unlike Windows and Linux, it seemed like nothing is free in the Mac world. I eventually gave the Mac away. We couldn't be friends.   I'd really like to see Linux become the dominant OS. It's exciting to see how far Ubuntu has come in the years that I've used it, and I evangelize for Linux/Ubuntu quite a bit. Even still, it can sometimes seem that I am a stranger in a strange world. Do you think we can count on Linux being a bigger part of mainstream computing? One of the problems I see is that there are so many distros that a person investigating Linux may be a little overwhelmed. What do you think is keeping the masses from using Linux desktops?

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I am using shared hosting at HostGator. I am trying to execute flare (a command line actionscript decompiler) via PHP.

According to phpinfo() my System is Linux gator1854.hostgator.com 3.2.13 #4 SMP Thu Mar 29 19:22:42 CDT 2012 x86_64

In my public_html, I have a folder named "zachafer" and inside that folder, I have a folder named "flare".

Inside the flare folder, I have the flare command line version, named "flare" and a file named movie.swf.

The flare website says that I need to run "./flare somepath/somename.swf"
Here is my code:
<?PHP

error_reporting(-1);

$swf = 'movie';

chdir("/home/infamous/public_html/zachafer/flare");
$cmd = "./flare $swf.swf";
shell_exec($cmd);

echo "Cmd: $cmd\n";
echo "File: ".file_get_contents("$swf.flr");

?>

Thank you.

Hi,    Please I keep seeing this on my wordpress website Linux+cfcd208495d565ef66e7dff9f98764da+01+[[]].  I've tried to clear it out but to no avail. Does anyone has a solution? I will appreciate.   Thanks

Sorry for posting this here, but for some reason the "create new topic" in linux subforum doesnt exist.


anyways i made a small php script that enables me to retrieve data between two dates. now am stuck on how i should copy it  or u0pload it into linux.

system tells me i need to upload to /usr/bin/libexec , i am there now but i dont have the slightest idea on how to do that.


help is much appreciated.

Thanks

I am new to Php and the linux environment.  I have written a php program which sames a file to folder using xampp in Windows but I am having a problem with the pathway using my Ubuntu server and LAMP.  My code I used in Windows was:

$fileName = "guessbook.txt";
$file = fopen ($fileName, "ab");
if(!$file)
{
    echo "ERROR! did not create the file! Exiting.<br />;
    exit();
}

This file was saved correctly using xampp into the htdoc folder and worked fine when I called it in my browser.  I tried to substitute a Linux pathway ie: /var/www/assignment2/guessbook.txt, where guessbook is in the code but still nothing.  Can someone explain how to write the correct pathway to save this file?

Thank you

Paul

My IDE (Nusphere's PhpED) runs on Windows but is configured so that both the web server as well as all project files are located on a development Linux server. Since the project files are located on the Linux server, the git repository is located there as well and not on my PC.  Every now again, my IDE complains that content was externally modified and whether I wish to reload the file.  Also, I was recently asked to set git's core.autocrlf to true on a project I was collaborating on which prevented me from adding any changes to git (git complained that LF will be replaced by CRLF).

The IDE allows file encoding to be changed (system default, UTF-8, Windows-1252, or ISO-8859-01) as well as the default file format (Unix, Windows, Mac, or autodetect).

Any recommendations on how best to configure git and these ide settings?

Thanks

Hello,

Can I set the priority on my scripts relating to swap? Something like set_swap(10); would mean that it will be first to go into swap and set_swap(1) means it will go as a last resort and set_swap(5) being the default ?

Kind of like the proc_nice() but for memory ?

Thanks,

David

Hi,
I am trying to use php to pass some commands to my linux box.From my webpage I am using the shell_exec function which is working OK but for some administrative tasks in linux I must have root access. As I am sending the commands from the webpage the apache user is used and so I am not allowed to do several tasks. I have also tried to use a bash script to pass the commands but with no result. Any ideas ?

Not to say that this occurs in every php software out there, but I far too occasionally notice that the application is written with scattered php open and close tags, for instance

<?php if(true) ?>
<?php { ?>
Blah blah blah, because it's true
<?php } else { ?>
because it's not true
<?php } ?>

To me, it is extremely irritating.   Regardless, I see a lot of open source software written this way and I can't help but think that there must be some underlying reason for it.  Magento, for example, is written exactly in this manner.  The templates are infested with these opened and closed php snippets.  Obscurity is not security so I'm ruling security reasons out.  Maybe it is more efficient? -- But I couldn't understand why, if so.  It seems like that would put more of a drag on the system itself causing php to start and stop parsing continually and excessively, then again, I'm no expert in the field of memory consumption and other operating system complexities.   Honestly, in my opinion, it is stupid.  i would never write a program that way..   HEREDOCs are much more useful and eye pleasing than that awful <?php { ?>   I had the misfortune a few months ago when I purchased an invoicing/customer maintenance system that I didn't know was written for PHP 5.2 or something lower, one that allowed short tags; and thus short tags were used in the same manner as I've described.   Is this just plain disorganization or is there some deep-seated inner lining advantage that I'm not aware of?

Hey, guys, in the following code, why i cannot see my ~/test.txt file? It seem he is not doing what i want, to create a .txt file with 'is just a test'. I'm using Debian.  

<?php
$f = fopen("~/test.txt","w+");
fwrite($f,'is just a test');
fclose($f);
?>

  Thank you!

Hey there,

Thanks for taking the time to read my thread, well basically I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I've got a string in PHP containing the contents of a file I would like to be created and I have a method of sending the command to the remote server like so:


$Connection->exec('ps aux'); 


Now my issue is I am unaware of any file editors via command like that don't have some sort of user prompt I've scoured Google for hours searching for the best possible method for this but all the file editors aren't simply processed by one line commands and edited in that same command e.g

Create File -> Write File -> Close File

Is there no possible means of doing that via one line command?.

Here is my string I wish to be written to the file.



$RestartFile = "#!/bin/bash
export SERVER_PATH=/home/client".$Server['server_owner']."/".$Server['server_id']."
cd $SERVER_PATH
while [ true ]; do
./server".$Server['server_id']." &
done");


Thank you for your time.

hello dear php-freaks and -experts

i just installed putty on linux - how to start it now?

love to hear  from you
Edited by Maze, 27 November 2014 - 03:37 PM.

So I just started watching the videos from Stanford, Google, MIT and a few on youtube. One of them contained the code for using tkinter function to create an application window and I tried to put the same type of thing together can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong cause nothing is happeing for me. I am running linux mint:

# - So this is what it feels like
# - To be alive
#!/user/bin/python
import sys

author = "Brian T. Flores"
version = "0.1"
sessionID = 0

#Get Interface

     from Tkinter import *

#initialize interface 

     root = Tk()

#modify root window info
 
     root.title("Unknown Limits - Massive Multiplayer RPG")
     root.geometry("200x100")

#initialize root window

     root.mainloop()



#if session is > 0:

   #Get Player Info

          UserName = "Brian Flores"
          Password = "enterprise"
          rank = 32

   #planetOverview

          planetName = "Earth"
          plasmaOnhand = 1000000000
          titainiumOnhand = 340000
          crystalOnhand = 55000000
          magneticEnergyOnhand = 350000 
         
       
          ecosystem = "No" 

# yes or no depending on wars or natural disasters that could have damaged or destroyed your ecosystem if there is no ecosystem the atmosphere must be cleaned up and another must be transplanted from another world.

          ecosystemDamage = 10000;  
          
#Damage can result from experiments, wars, natural disasters. At 10,000 damage the ecosystem goes extinct. You can repair this damage my researching technologies and building machines to do such repair 
  
 #         else:
            
           #   print "You are not logged in!";

   
        # raw_input()

Well for some reason it's not working. All I am doing here is setting some vars and using the root.tk function.

If anyone has any Ideas or tips to get this basic script working let me know.   Thank you, DaRedHead
Edited by DaRedHead, 21 November 2014 - 09:17 PM.

Hello Community, good evening!


i am having troubles with starting PHP on linux - [running OpenSuse-Linux]



Could not open input file: -
suse-linux:/usr/perl # php -v
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/extensions/readline.so' 
- libedit.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.3.4-dev (cli) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
suse-linux:/usr/perl # 


well what is wrong here...?