[SOLVED] Call php script from php script will not run

pizzipie · 11-11-2020, 07:35 PM

On my frontend script I have a choice of backing up the database file for the program. This frontend calls a php script which by itself works fine. What I am trying to do is get back from the called script to the iniating script. The insert shows what is going on(I hope).
Thanks for help in solving this, R

michaelk · 11-11-2020, 08:18 PM

One way to redirect the browser back to your "front end page" is the header function.

Code:

header("Location: /url/to/the/other/page");

There is also ways to combine front and the back together into one web page too.

pizzipie · 11-12-2020, 03:43 PM

Thanks michaelk,

I used header( "refresh:10; url=PizziFrontEnd.php" ); at the very top of my script

and

echo 'Continuing in 10 seconds. Return now - click<a href="PizziFrontEnd.php"> here</a>.';

at the very bottom of my script and it works like a charm.

R

michaelk · 11-12-2020, 04:04 PM

FYI the web server has its own PHP interpreter which is separate from the PHP CLI command line interpreter which you were trying to run in the posted code. The php CLI interpreter should not be in the apache's users path which is one reason it failed plus it I shouldn't process it as a web page. I've run stand alone php CLI code just like any other program via exec but never tried to see what happens if it contains HTML code...