Well guys i dont really know how to start, is the first time that i work with powershell and PHP together, but now i dont know how to deal with this problem, therefore im here..
Im developing a webinterface for a company to administrate services (turn on/off servers basically). I have already programmed the powershells scripts, everything run fine 0 problems.
But i have a part where i try to show in a AlertBox(javascript) the status of a process (the powershell script has already given me the return value but i cant understand why php dont process it like a string or text.
Check it Out a piece of my code :
<?php
if (isset($_POST['button']))
{
$service = $_POST["service1"];
$psPath = "powershell.exe";
$psDIR = "C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\shell\\";
$psScript = "check-status.ps1";
$runScript = $psDIR. $psScript;
$runcheck = $psPath." ".$runScript." 2>&1";
$computername = "xen-80-42";
$go = shell_exec("$runcheck -passwd 'Hpdprqn5' -user 'Administrator' -computer '$computername' -service '$service' < NUL");
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>alert('" . $service . " is currently " . $go . " on " . $computername . "'); </script>";
}
?>
<form method="post">
<p>
<input type="text" name="service1" id="service1" maxlength="20"></input> <button name="button">Check Status</button>
</p>
</form>
Well
Everything works fine, the script give back 2 possible values : "Running" or "Stopped"
that means , the value of the variable $go, should be or "Running" or "Stopped"
Ok i tried with a process that is already running, therefore : echo $go; print "Running"
i thought was a problem because maybe the returned value $go is not String.
But i solved that using gettype($go) , and the variable is STRING!
but can somebody explain me why when i wanna count the characters of that String, using strlen($go) , i get a return of 8 characters? RUNNING has only 7 Letters, not 8
for that reason i cant execute the ALERT in Javascript (code above), because java doesnt take it as a String or something like that
something is wrong there i think, btw when i tried to make a comparation like that:
if ($go == "Running") { echo "Everything ok"; } else { echo "different values";}
i get the second options, both values are not really equal, they are diferent. but wheree? i cant see anything..
I hope someone can helpme cause im frustrate :(
btw i tried :
strval($go);
(string)$go;
$var = "$go";
NOTHING WORKS :(
if its necesary ask for the powershell script, but i think its not necesary you see that php receives the value as STRING :/