Running bash scripts from PHP

[craigp]

I am using this code to call a bash script on the computer

$last_line = system('/home/www/public_html/something/scripttesting/ls', $retval);

// Printing additional info
echo '
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<hr />Last line of the output: ' . $last_line . '
<hr />Return value: ' . $retval;

and it works for simple things like ls

However when i start to do things like mkdir it doesnt work due to permission issues. I understand that this is because it is being ran from the user www-data but how can i get that command to run as sudo?

Cheers

[spiderbatdad]

there are way to get the command to touch a plain text password directory, which is not considered very secure. Why not just change the permissions of the directory you want the script to write to, to 777?

[craigp]

i ran chmod 777 on the directory that the script is sitting in and it actually still says the same thing... and the bash script and php file has full permissions..