[Clipart] KDE and OCAL

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.com
Thu Apr 21 17:40:05 PDT 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:33:08PM -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:04 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > Hmm, that's an idea...  Can PHP run shell scripts?  If so then it might
> > be really trivial to solve this - we just create some short perl scripts
> > that communicate with the server and then return formatted HTML
> > snippets, that PHP could then insert into the appropriate places in the
> > page.  Seems a bit of a hack, but a lot less work than reimplementing
> > vast portions of the system.
> 
> Yes, this is totally doable. There are multiple ways to run shell
> scripts and other executables in PHP.

Okay, let's proceed with this approach, it sounds like the least-work
approach to getting this plugged in.

Bryce



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