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meaghanpsavage ・

Jan 27th, 2023 03:40 PM

I have some functions built within python that I would like to use for the wave dashboard calculations. I've tried to call upon these through shell_exec within my index.blade.php file (see below) but nothing runs. I also tried auto loading the python file in the composer.json file but that didn't change anything.

Is there anyway I can call upon python files from the blade.php files?

$output = shell_exec("test.py"); echo $output;

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bobbyiliev ・

Jan 28th, 2023 06:24 AM

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Hi there,

There are a couple of reasons why the shell_exec function might not be working:

  • Check your php.ini file if you have a disable_functions variable defined. For security reasons shell_exec might be in that list. If this is the case, remove the shell_exec from the list and restart your webserver.
  • Make sure that the path to the test.py file is correct, if you just put the name of the file there, it is most likely that the file will not be in the right path.

Alternatively, I personally like the symfony/process package to run shell commands, eg:

  • Install the package:
composer require symfony/process
  • Example usage:
<?php

use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessFailedException;

$process = new Process(['python', base_path().'/path/to/script.py']);
$process->run();

// error handling
if (!$process->isSuccessful()) {
    throw new ProcessFailedException($process);
}

$output_data = $process->getOutput();

Let me know how it goes!

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meaghanpsavage ・

Jan 28th, 2023 09:36 AM

That worked thank you! I was able to execute my python code.

I'm now trying to figure out now how to pass variables into my python code. However, when I try to add these in it ends up not running anything. Are you familiar with how to pass variables using this?

<?php

use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessFailedException;

$var = "Testing"

$process = new Process(['python', '/wamp64/www/watchdog/python/test.py', $var]);
$process->run();

// error handling
if (!$process->isSuccessful()) {
    throw new ProcessFailedException($process);
}

$output_data = $process->getOutput();

echo $output_data;

?>

Then in my test.py file I have the following:

print("Hello from python" + var)
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bobbyiliev ・

Jan 28th, 2023 09:56 AM

Hey,

Happy to hear that this worked!

For the arguments, the way that you have it on the PHP side looks correct, for your Python script, I think that you need to process the arguments. You could do that using the sys module, eg:

import sys

print 'Number of arguments:', len(sys.argv), 'arguments.'
print 'Argument List:', str(sys.argv)

Let me know how it goes!

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meaghanpsavage ・

Jan 29th, 2023 08:39 AM

Thanks! I got it to work using the 'sys' module

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bobbyiliev ・

Jan 29th, 2023 08:43 AM

No problem! Happy to hear that you’ve got it all working!

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