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Syahmul Aziz
Asked: 2010-10-27 18:50:23 +0800 CST

How to Call Tcl Scripts from PHP

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Currently, I would like to call Tool Command Language Scripts that is located in server A.

When a user surf a website that is hosted in server B. When, a user click on a button for example, I would like the php file to execute the Tcl scripts that is located in server B.

How do I do that?

Thank you in advance.

scripting php

1 Answers

  1. Use a PHP execution operator (note that you should be extremely careful - if possible, limit to valid scripts instead of letting the user specify arbitrary commands in a GET or POST variable).

    Example:

    http://myserver.com/php_scriptname.php?tcl_call=asdf.tcl

    <?php

if ( !file_exists("/path/to/tclsh") ) {
  die('unable to access TCL interpreter - check user permissions for UID ' . getmyuid() );
}

switch ( $_GET['tcl_call'] ) {

  case 'asdf.tcl':
    `/path/to/tclsh /path/to/asdf.tcl`
  break;

  default:
    die('invalid script called');
  break;

}

?>

    Edit:

    Your question presently reads:

    When a user surf a website that is hosted in server B. When, a user click on a button for example, I would like the php file to execute the Tcl scripts that is located in server B.

    ... but if you wanted to call a script on server "A", you could set up an SSH key and then call SSH from your script on server "B" - for example:

      case 'asdf.tcl':
    `ssh phpuser@servera '/servera/path/to/tclsh /servera/path/to/asdf.tcl'`
  break;

    (Single quotes and backticks)

    Note that you can store what is returned from the execution operator in a variable or echo it - you may want to echo the return value and include 2>&1 at the end of every command you run for debugging.

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