I am doing the following in PHP:
exec('java -jar "/opt/flex3/lib/mxmlc.jar" +flexlib "/opt/flex3/frameworks" MyAS3App.as -default-size 360 280 -output MyAS3App.swf');
When I run this from the command line, it runs fine and finishes in a second or two.
When I run this command from PHP exec, the java process takes 100% CPU and never returns.
Any ideas?
I have also tried running the above command with '/usr/bin/java -Djava.awt.headless=true'.
I am running Mac OS X 10.5.5, MAMP 1.7, PHP 5.2.5
Actually you can push data from the server to the client, when using Flash sockets (which means bypassing the http protocol). If you cannot use sockets you can use things like polling, long polling or http streaming. However it will take a while to do everything by hand, so I suggest looking at a product which already has this features. WebOrb for PHP is one of them, and from what I know is free.
Does your computer have UAC turned off? (Windows 7 or Vista, accessing C: with out UAC perms will error so for ease turn it off),
Secondly, exec requires a string input,
Thirdly need to be escaped as Phill said
exec('java -jar "C:/batik/batik-rasterizer.jar" -m C:/pathto/image/png -d
"C:/pathtoimg/temp/2fa8af078803491746235057c546c1b6.png" -w 800
"C:/pathtoimg/temp/2fa8af078803491746235057c546c1b6.svg"');
UPDATED FOR COMMENT ON PHILLS
Check that your allowed to use exec/system/backticks, using the CLI
<?php exec("echo hello"); ?> inside it save itif this does not work check java is working without path to exe, in the cmd windows type your java --help and see if it works
In re-reviewing the code, I noticed that I shouldn't have escaped the single-quotes. They're valid for the actual execution and I should only escape DOUBLE quotes for php in this instance...
The final code looks like this (for future reference) :
<?php
$name = "generated";
$phone = "";
$url = "";
if(isset($_POST['name'])) {
$name = $_POST['name'];
}
if(isset($_POST['phone'])) {
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
}
if(isset($_POST['url'])) {
$url = $_POST['url'];
}
$swfname = $name . ".swf";
$generate_command1 = "export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xms32m -Xmx64m"; /opt/flex/bin/mxmlc -define+=NAMES::Name,"'$name'" -define+=NAMES::Phone,"'$phone'" -define+=NAMES::Website,"'$url'" -output /path/to/my/webserver/httpdocs/swfbuilder/$swfname DynamicTextTest.as";
exec($generate_command1, $out);
?>
Typically this is a path problem. The application you're trying to call is probably not in the search path of the web server's user account. I only call applications from PHP using the full path. I store that path in settings files so it works across any system it's used on.
Turns out it was a bug specific to the PHP stack MAMP (http://www.mamp.info/).
Turns out any invocation of the JVM following fails under MAMP, e.g.:
The fix is to prefix the command with
Also I realized there's no reason to use that method of invoking mxmlc.
So here's the final, working command: