I have a php web application and on one of the route I try to execute node script.
Node script location: C:\Users\meusr\Workspace\www\myproject\directImport.js
I have configured my package.json, such that npm start executes above script.
php (laravel) application's executable index.php located at: C:\Users\meusr\Workspace\www\myPHPproject\public\
And on one of my route: importer/run
I have:
$commandToRun = "npm start --prefix ". env('IMPORTER_PATH'). " /dev/null 2>&1";
Where IMPORTER_PATH is configured in my env, as: IMPORTER_PATH = C:\Users\meusr\Workspace\www\myproject\
when I try to execute the command with exec
exec($commandToRun, $output);
Page keeps on loading no output, no error and no end.
The script has no issue and running the same command on command line on windows system works:
npm start --prefix C:\Users\meusr\Workspace\www\myproject\
outputs as expected.
I thought it was issue with permission first (which should have thrown error, but I still tried and ran another command)
exec('npm -v', $output);
which outputs my npm version.
Similarly I tried to use simply node directImport.js which didn't work either.
Then tried to change directory to the location where node file is located and ran the command again. exec(cd C:\Users\meusr\Workspace\www\myproject\ && dir /dev/null 2>&1) // this works, but:
exec(cd C:\Users\meusr\Workspace\www\myproject\ && node directImport.js /dev/null 2>&1) // this didn't work
Thanks to miken32, what worked for me was:
<?php
$commandString = 'start /b c:\\programToRun.exe -attachment "c:\\temp\file1.txt"';
pclose(popen($commandString, 'r'));
?>