How to use cURL instead of exec()? [duplicate]

Question

I get the error:

Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons

For the following code, any ideas of how I could workaround this without using exec()?

$file = 'test.jpg';
$cmd  = 'curl -F userfile=$file ' .
        '-F outputencoding="utf-8" ' .
        '-F outputformat="txt" ' .
        'http://maggie.ocrgrid.org/cgi-bin/weocr/ocr_scene.cgi >result.txt';
exec($cmd, $result);
echo $result;

Can you not do this natively? php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php — Michael Berkowski
– Michael Berkowski, Commented May 12, 2013 at 3:02
Pretty sure if exec is disabled, so is curl, are you on a shared hosting website? — Dave Chen
– Dave Chen, Commented May 12, 2013 at 3:09

mpyw · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-12 03:30:11Z

0

Try this:

$url = 'http://maggie.ocrgrid.org/cgi-bin/weocr/ocr_scene.cgi';
$filename = 'test.jpg';

// postfields
$data = array(
    'userfile' => '@'.realpath($filename)
);

$fp1 = fopen('res_error.txt','w');
$fp2 = fopen('res_header.txt','w');

// cURL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setpot_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_URL            => $url  ,
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => $data ,
    CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 60    ,
    CURLOPT_HEADER         => false ,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true  ,
    CURLOPT_POST           => true  ,
    CURLOPT_VERBOSE        => true  ,
    CURLOPT_STDERR         => $fp1  ,
    CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER    => $fp2  ,
));
$res = curl_exec($ch);

fclose($fp1);
fclose($fp2);

echo $res;

answered May 12, 2013 at 3:30

mpyw

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