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Queuing at job from within php program? [message #175666]

Mon, 17 October 2011 13:24

bobmct
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Fellow php'ers;

I'm having some difficulty getting this to work: Based on a date/time
selected by a user on a web form I would like to use the "at" command to
schedule that task.

I've tried various php functions (system, exec, passthru) with the same
results (return code 1 - which I cannot seem to get the error message
from).

Here is a sample code snippet:

$cmd = "echo \"podcast -c $filename\" | at $hr:$mn $_ampm";
passthru("$cmd", $Retcode);
echo "$Retcode";

returns 1

Then I thought that perhaps the 'at' was not reading stdin in this case
so I tried a temporary file approach:

$cmd = "echo \"podcast -c $filename\"";
file_put_contents($filename.tmp, $cmd);
passthru("at $_hr:$_mn $_ampm < $filename.tmp", $_RetVal);
echo "$_RetVal";

This time it returned 2

I've got to be misunderstanding this function. So, I thought if any of
you skilled readers have had luck with doing something like this you may
be willing to share. However, any other suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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		Queuing at job from within php program? By: bobmct on Mon, 17 October 2011 13:24
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 17 October 2011 15:20
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: bobmct on Mon, 17 October 2011 15:51
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 17 October 2011 16:47
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Robert Heller on Mon, 17 October 2011 18:27
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 17 October 2011 20:53
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 18 October 2011 07:51
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 18 October 2011 03:43
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: Erwin Moller on Tue, 18 October 2011 08:12
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? By: bobmct on Thu, 20 October 2011 01:40
		Re: Queuing at job from within php program? SOLVED! By: bobmct on Fri, 21 October 2011 01:21

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