Is there an equivalent to C#’s Process.Start in PHP?

Question

1. In .NET The Process class contains several useful properties/methods that allow developers to access process relative information. Is there any equivalent method or class in PHP?

2. Is there any equivalent method in PHP like C# method "Process.Start()"?

Answer 1

1. See Program execution Functions

Except there's no concept of methods/classes/properties/namespaces in the PHP standard functions. PHP is essentially a procedural programming language with few OOP constructs and namespace support being added as a new feature as of the last major release (5.3). It's one of the reasons why people criticise it as a 'toy' language. You can access all of the PHP built-in functions all the time, no pesky namespaces to get in the way ;), just be careful of name collisions.

2. @YSJaitawat Right answer bad reference.

Click this link for the exec function documentation in the PHP manual.

Note: Also, if you're migrating from C# to PHP and looking for info the PHP manual has some surprisingly good info including user-submitted comments at the bottom of the entry where people usually post use-cases or extensions to the standard uses. It's probably the easiest language to learn because of the wealth of info to be found in the manual.

Answer 2

Following code snippet should do the same as "Process.Start()"

$executable = 'executable process'; exec($executable);

more on process control and execution can be found at http://php.net/manual/en/book.pcntl.php