Programming PHP

Name

popen

Synopsis

int popen(string command, string mode)

Opens a pipe to a process executed by running command on the shell.

The parameter mode specifies the permissions to open the file with, which can only be unidirectional (that is, for reading or writing only). mode must be one of the following:

r	Open file for reading; file pointer will be at beginning of file.
w	Open file for writing. If the file exists, it will be truncated to zero length; if the file doesn’t already exist, it will be created.

If any error occurs while attempting to open the pipe, false is returned. If not, the resource handle for the pipe is returned.