Input text in page1:
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<form name="myform" action="page2.php" method="post">
<input type="text" size="92" name="my_text" />
...
page2.php:
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$our_text = ($_POST['my_text']);
Until now we're ok, and echo $our_text still gives me the right string. but then, when passing $subject to a bash script:
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shell_exec("./myscript.sh '$our_text'");
in myscript.sh:
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still_our_text=$1
echo $still_our_text > log.txt
in log.txt, I have my complete string if it has only standard letters and spaces. But if there is an apostrophe or a letter with an accent (French é or è or ê), then I only get strange things "I will do it now" is kept intact in log.txt "I'll do it now" just doesn't work, log.txt is not created "L'éléphant va bien" (which means the elephant feels well...), actually puts "Léléphant" in log.txt, and if we pass additional arguments through shell exec, the other words are passed in the other arguments For example If I pass 4 arguments to shell exec:
1: "L'éléphant va bien"
2: "go"
3: 4
4: "stop"
Then in scrip.sh, if I echo $1 to $4 in log.txt, I have:
1: Léléphant
2: va
3: bien
4:
But sometimes it just doesn't work and nothing get written in log.txt.
Any idea on how to fix this and correctly pass a string through shell_exec, so I recover my full string in the bash script ? Thanks in advance
escapeshellarg should work. Take the following example:
<?php
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US.UTF-8');
$our_text = "L'éléphant va bien";
shell_exec('./myscript.sh ' . escapeshellarg($our_text));
still_our_text=$1
printf '%s
' "$still_our_text" >log.txt
(Made a few changes to be make it more robust)
Then run it like so from the command line:
$ php ourtext.php; cat log.txt
L'éléphant va bien
Have you tried escapeshellarg ?