Re: trying to use EXEC with Zend -- WEB400

The keyword is “unsolicited” - maybe it would be acceptable to the OP to have the user have to confirm what they want to do?

If so then it is just a question of forming the right link and making sure that the Windows user has the appropriate file type registered to “open with …”.

There are a couple of ways to do it suggested in this thread on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3057576/launch-application-from-a-browser

Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 4, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think it is doable at all to be honest. The only time locally installed software can run is if the user initiated it - for example when a PDF link is clicked and the browser streams PDF data to the PC to be loaded by locally installed PDF reader, or a word document into Word etc. You cannot make JavaScript run a locally installed executable in an unsolicited way - if that was possible there would be a world wide meltdown :)

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: 04 December 2014 21:03
To: 'Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] trying to use EXEC with Zend

Since the browser is the on the PC and the PHP server is on the host, are you not going to need a browser function to call the local PC action? I don't think that has anything to do with PHP, more likely JavaScript. Then there's the whole thing of giving a browser the ability to run a command on the local machine. Doable I think so, but I think there might be a hurdle or two to jump.

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-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Dietz
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 2:56 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] trying to use EXEC with Zend

As you heard not available.

Assuming that this is an internal application what if you put an entry on a DTAQ and you had the users PC listening on that data queue.....

I wonder if the RPGtoDesktop software here:
http://mowyourlawn.com/RPGToDesktop.html

could assist you.

Just thinking WAY outside the box....

Bryan

Larry Kleinman wrote on 12/4/2014 3:25 PM:

Yep, that is exactly what is happening. But it's not what I want. I
want to run the command on the PC. (I'm trying to open MS Paint). Am I
mistaken in thinking that this is possible?

Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469

From: Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)"
<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 12/04/2014 03:21 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] trying to use EXEC with Zend
Sent by: "WEB400" <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

what you are seeing appears to be running on the host the web server
is on.
Assuming the host is IBM i, try using "ls -la" or "pwd" as the EXEC
command.

Bryan

Larry Kleinman wrote on 12/4/2014 3:10 PM:

I want my PHP script to run a DOS command on the PC whose browser opened
the script, It looks like EXEC should do this, but no matter what
command I use - including easy stuff like DIR or IPCONFIG - I get a

"file

not found" message. For example, if the script contains

$test= exec('dir 2>&1', $output);
echo $test;
echo '<BR>';
var_dump($output);

I get

sh: dir: not found.
array(1) { [0]=> string(20) "sh: dir: not found." }

Any ideas?

Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469

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