<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Execution Operators</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Operators" HREF="language.operators.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Error Control Operators" HREF="language.operators.errorcontrol.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Incrementing/Decrementing Operators" HREF="language.operators.increment.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.operators.errorcontrol.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Cap. 10. Operators</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.operators.increment.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.operators.execution" >Execution Operators</A ></H1 ><P > PHP supports one execution operator: backticks (``). Note that these are not single-quotes! PHP will attempt to execute the contents of the backticks as a shell command; the output will be returned (i.e., it won't simply be dumped to output; it can be assigned to a variable). Use of the backtick operator is identical to <A HREF="function.shell-exec.html" ><B CLASS="function" >shell_exec()</B ></A >. <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN2173" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$output </font><font color="#007700">= `</font><font color="#0000BB">ls -al</font><font color="#007700">`;<br />echo </font><font color="#DD0000">"<pre>$output</pre>"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Notã: </B > The backtick operator is disabled when <A HREF="features.safe-mode.html#ini.safe-mode" >safe mode</A > is enabled or <A HREF="function.shell-exec.html" ><B CLASS="function" >shell_exec()</B ></A > is disabled. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also the manual section on <A HREF="ref.exec.html" >Program Execution functions</A >, <A HREF="function.popen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >popen()</B ></A > <A HREF="function.proc-open.html" ><B CLASS="function" >proc_open()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="features.commandline.html" >Using PHP from the commandline</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.errorcontrol.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.increment.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Error Control Operators</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.operators.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Incrementing/Decrementing Operators</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >