如何使用exec（）在PHP中执行随npm命令安装的命令？

Question

In PHP running on Ubuntu, I can run exec('npm -v') and the output is good, but I can't run exec('gitbook xxxx') .

gitbook is a npm package I installed by

npm install gitbook -g

I can run gitbook xxxx in the Ubuntu terminal, how can I run it from my PHP code?

Answer 1

I tried once like this on UNIX-based OS:

You can run shell commands via the exec() function:

// make an php file to execute shell script

exec("node yourscript.js &", $output);

Well output here become array of each line of output along with process id. You can kill process by processid also.

exec("kill " . $processid);

This how I was did. Other then this you can use node supervisor. Hope it will help you. Try your also with node command.

Answer 2

If you run php by nginx or apache (for example, visit url example.com/index.php), sometime you need to export the PATH

exec("export PATH=/usr/local/bin && gitbook build);

after I added export PATH, everything works fine.