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    Pipes allow passing of data between programs in PHP. The popen() function opens a pipe and returns a file pointer that can be used to read from or write to the pipe. Pipes must be closed with pclose(). exec(), system(), and passthru() functions execute external programs and commands. Sessions in PHP provide a way to store and access data across multiple pages using session variables accessible via the $_SESSION superglobal. Session data is stored on the server and identified using a session ID cookie.

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    Pipes allow passing of data between programs in PHP. The popen() function opens a pipe and returns a file pointer that can be used to read from or write to the pipe. Pipes must be closed with pclose(). exec(), system(), and passthru() functions execute external programs and commands. Sessions in PHP provide a way to store and access data across multiple pages using session variables accessible via the $_SESSION superglobal. Session data is stored on the server and identified using a session ID cookie.

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    Pipes in PHP

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    Pipes allow passing of data between programs in PHP. The popen() function opens a pipe and returns a file pointer that can be used to read from or write to the pipe. Pipes must be closed with pclose(). exec(), system(), and passthru() functions execute external programs and commands. Sessions in PHP provide a way to store and access data across multiple pages using session variables accessible via the $_SESSION superglobal. Session data is stored on the server and identified using a session ID cookie.

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    PIPES

    Pipes
    • The popen() function used to open a pipe to the program
    specified by the user using the command parameter.
    • It returns a file pointer which is identical to that returned
    by fopen(), but it is unidirectional in nature.
    • It can be only used for reading or writing. The popen()
    pointer can be used with fgets(), fgetss(), and fwrite().
    • The file pointer initiated by the popen() function must be
    closed with pclose().
    Pipes
    Syntax:
    popen(command, mode);
    • Parameters Used:
    The popen() function in PHP accepts two parameters.
    • command : It is a mandatory parameter which specifies the
    command to be executed.
    • mode : It is a mandatory parameter which specifies the
    connection mode such as read only(r) or write only(w).
    <?php
    $myfile=popen("/ls","r");
    echo $myfile. gettype($myfile);
    if($myfile==false)
    echo"pipe opening problem";
    else
    {
    if(($file_read=fread($myfile,4192))==false)
    echo "file reading problem";
    else
    {
    echo $file_read;
    pclose($myfile);
    }
    }
    ?>
    Running commands using exec ()
    • exec — Execute an external program or command (terminal
    commands)

    • exec ( string $command , array &$output = null , int &$result_code =


    null ) :
    • Returns output string on success , false on failure.
    <?php
    // (on a system with the "iamexecfunction" executable in the path)
    $result=array();
    echo exec('date',$result);
    print_r($result);

    ?>
    system
    system — Execute an external program and display the output.
    system ( string $command , int &$result_code = null )

    • Returns string or false


    • command
    • The command that will be executed.
    • result_code
    • If the result_code argument is present, then the return status of the executed
    command will be written to this variable.
    <?php
    system('date');
    ?>
    passthru
    • passthru — Execute an external program and display raw output

    passthru ( string $command , int &$return_var = ? )

    The passthru() function is similar to the exec() function in that it


    executes a command.
    This function should be used in place of exec() or system() when the
    output from the Unix command is binary data which needs to be
    passed directly back to the browser.
    <?php
    // (on a system with the "iamexecfunction" executable in the path)
    //$result=array();
    passthru('dir');
    ?>
    Sessions in PHP
    Introduction to sessions
    • A session is a way to store information (in variables) to
    be used across multiple pages.
    • PHP session is used to store and pass information from one page to
    another temporarily (until user close the website).
    • session technique is widely used in shopping websites where we need
    to store and pass cart information
    • For e.g. username, product code, product name, product price etc from
    one page to another.
    PHP sessions
    Start a PHP Session
    • A session is started with the session_start() function.

    • Session variables are set with the PHP global variable: $_SESSION.
    • The session_start() function must be the very first thing in our
    document. Before any HTML tags.
    Example
    <?php  
    session_start();  
    ?>  
    <html>  
    <body>  
    <?php  
    $_SESSION["user"] = “Admin";  
    echo "Session information are set successfully.<br/>";  
    ?>  
    <a href="session2.php">Visit next page</a>  
    </body>  
    </html>  
    File: session2.php

    <?php  
    session_start();  
    ?>  
    <html>  
    <body>  
    <?php  
    echo "User is: ".$_SESSION["user"];  
    ?>  
    </body>  
    </html>  

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