PHP exec in background does nothing on Windows 10

[MiiChiel2000]

Hello there,

I am really happy with XAMPP, only I just am not able to run any php exec command in the background or at all. So I tried:

- starting XAMPP as admin
- Install services (without services installed exec command does work with applications, not with batch files, but they don't run in background, with services the whole exec command does not work)
- put UAC to lowest setting
- Making a test.php:

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exec('cmd /c C:/test.bat',$output,$return_val);
if($return_val !== 0) {
    echo 'Error<br>';
    print_r($output);
}


Result is:

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Error
Array ( [0] => [1] => C:\xampp\htdocs>echo hoi [2] => hoi [3] => [4] => C:\xampp\htdocs>timeout 5 )

The test.bat file contains:

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echo hoi
timeout 5


Same with normal applications. They don't start at all when Apache as services is installed. Only normal applications (no .bat files) run when services is not installed.

I tried changing in services the service can interact with the desktop, no change. I don't know to which user i should change it (the not local one), cause there is none, the user field is blanc.

Can someone help me out? Thnx!

[Nobbie]

Sinply read the documentation

https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.exec.php

[MiiChiel2000]

Sinply read the documentation

https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.exec.php

Well I did. I know that giving an extra parameter makes it work in the background. Except it doesn't work for me, like I described before, I tried all different kind of solutions that people came up with.

When I close the application, for instance mspaint, then the server continues working out the rest of the php file.

[Nobbie]

Sinply read the documentation

https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.exec.php

Well I did. I know that giving an extra parameter makes it work in the background

Uuh?! Why do you believe that, what makes you "knowing"??

Actually, I know that REDIRECTING the output makes it work in the background, and nothing else?! What do you mean by "giving an extra parameter"??