Backtick Operator
July 11th, 2008
I just learned something new today in PHP. It’s the Backtick Operator. What it does is executes a shell command and captures its output. You can then store that in a variable for use. I am pretty sure this is a UNIX command only. Not sure if this will work in windows or not. Here is how you use it.
< ?php $a = `ls -l`; echo $a; ?>
Wes said:
Yes it does work on windows. The only problem is when trying to use cmd.exe on server, there are permissions issues, which I have not figured out how to get around yet.