how to open a new CMD window using PHP

Question

In the last days i was tying to code something in PHP to popup a CMD windows and this CMD windows have a command like "ping google.com" and process it
i don't need the PHP code to read the result , i only want it to run it i tried some thing like

<?php     
exec('C:\Windows\System32/cmd.exe ping google.com');     
<?

but no result (i don't know if it run it in background )
so i read this and i founded many ways but nothing worked

My OS is windows and thanks alot for all :)

Answer 1

the answer is
i searched alot to find it :))

<?
execInBackground('start cmd.exe @cmd /k "ping google.com"');



function execInBackground($cmd) { 
    if (substr(php_uname(), 0, 7) == "Windows"){ 
        pclose(popen("start /B ". $cmd, "r"));  
    } 
    else { 
        exec($cmd . " > /dev/null &");   
    } 
}
?>