Essential PHP

Execution Operator

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The PHP execution operator consists of backticks (``) and is used to run shell commands. The output of the command will be returned, and may, therefore, be stored in a variable. 

// List files
$output = `ls`;
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";

Note that the execute operator and shell_exec() will give the same result.

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