popen()

popen - Opens process file pointer

Syntax

resource popen (string $command, string $mode)

Arguments

• command - The command
• mode - The mode

Description

Opens a pipe to a process executed by forking the command given by command.

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

Returns a file pointer identical to that returned by fopen(), except that it is unidirectional (may only be used for reading or writing) and must be closed with pclose(). This pointer may be used with fgets(), fgetss(), and fwrite().