How to run an external PHP script silently within a PHP script?

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For example:

Content of server-a.com/test.php:

echo 'hello world one';

// now I need to call server-b.com/test.php here silently
// without interfering with user experience

echo 'hello world two';

Content of server-b.com/test.php:

mail($foo, $bar, $qux); header('location: http://google.com');

Now running server-a.com/test.php should output hello world one hello world two. And it should not redirect to google.com even though server-b.com/test.php was called successfully.

Your question does not relation show a between the two scripts. which one is calling what? — Lord Loh.
– Lord Loh., Commented Oct 24, 2012 at 22:16
if you don't want header() to run make it conditional on some parameter you can decide when to pass. — user557846
– user557846, Commented Oct 24, 2012 at 22:17
@LordLoh. If you run server-a.com/test.php, you also silently run server-b.com/test.php — IMB
– IMB, Commented Oct 25, 2012 at 17:24

ahmetunal · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-24 22:18:50Z

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You can use file_get_contents()

file_get_contents("server-b.com/test.php");

or Curl

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "server-b.com/test.php"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE); // remove body 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); 
curl_exec($ch);

answered Oct 24, 2012 at 22:18

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Nwafor · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-24 22:17:22Z

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use this function file_get_contents():

file_get_contents("server-b.com/test.php");

answered Oct 24, 2012 at 22:17

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Musa · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-24 22:22:17Z

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You can remove the location header with header_remove. After you include server-b.com/test.php just call

header_remove('Location');

answered Oct 24, 2012 at 22:22

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ahmetunal Over a year ago

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Dalorzo · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-02 06:58:00Z

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You can use Symfony2's Process component for that. Example:

use Symfony\Component\Process\PhpProcess;

$process = new PhpProcess(<<<EOF
    <?php echo 'Hello World'; ?>
EOF
);
$process->run();

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answered Oct 24, 2012 at 22:19

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