Php shell command output on to a variable

Hey there,

I've dealt with this exact issue while working on my PHP project, and I found a different approach that worked well for me. Instead of using the `exec()` function, I utilized the `shell_exec()` function in PHP to capture the shell command's output into a variable.

This function allows you to execute a shell command and retrieve the complete output as a string. Here's a code snippet to demonstrate how you can make use of it:

php
$command = 'your_shell_command';

$output = shell_exec($command);



// Now you can work with the output as a string

echo $output;

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Hey there,

I've faced a similar situation before where I needed to capture the output of a shell command into a PHP variable. Here's what helped me out:

You can use the `exec()` function in PHP to execute the shell command and retrieve the output. The `exec()` function takes two arguments: the shell command you want to run and a reference variable in which you can store the output.

Here's an example of how you can achieve this:

php
$command = 'your_shell_command';

$output = array();



exec($command, $output);



// Now you can access the output stored in the $output array

foreach ($output as $line) {

    echo $line;

}

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