PHP exec returns ascii characters

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I want to display the PHP version on my page, and I have two PHP binaries on my server. One is used for the website (i.e. used by the content in /public_html/) and the other one is used by the command line.

Both the PHP have different version so I want to display the CLI PHP version using the web server. I have the path of both binaries.

I am using:

exec('/usr/bin/php-cli -r "echo phpversion();"', $phpversion, $ret);
echo $phpversion = implode('', $phpversion);

But it is giving me some ascii code which is not recognized by my browser.

The out put I get is �2�3�34��V.B

What's going wrong?

why don't you use "php-cli --version" instead?

confiq
– confiq

2012-09-08 10:43:20 +00:00
Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 10:43 — confiq
– confiq, Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 10:43

Chirag · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-06 15:05:15Z

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I managed to fix the issue. This issue was coming because zlib.output_compression was turned on. I just turned it off and it resolved the problem. Thanks for the replies guys.

answered Oct 6, 2012 at 15:05

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JvdBerg · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-08 10:44:32Z

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Its a characterset issue.

Before sending any output to your browser do:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

Your browser has, as I see it, another default as UTF-8. When I run your code I get "5.4.6-1~dotdeb.0"

answered Sep 8, 2012 at 10:44

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Chirag Over a year ago

I have charset as utf-8 but than also it is giving me the same issue.

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