System program execution

• Introduction
• Installing/Configuring
  • Installation
  • Runtime Configuration
  • Resource Types
• Predefined Constants
• Program execution Functions
  • escapeshellarg — Escape a string to be used as a shell argument
  • escapeshellcmd — Escape shell metacharacters
  • exec — Execute an external program
  • passthru — Execute an external program and display raw output
  • proc_close — Close a process opened by proc_open and return the exit code of that process.
  • proc_get_status — Get information about a process opened by proc_open
  • proc_nice — Change the priority of the current process
  • proc_open — Execute a command and open file pointers for input/output
  • proc_terminate — Kills a process opened by proc_open
  • shell_exec — Execute command via shell and return the complete output as a string
  • system — Execute an external program and display the output