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4 years 6 months ago #206550 by hagerregah
How can I run Python scripts using limesurvey? was created by hagerregah
I have a few python scripts I want to run. I added a few lines in Limesurvey's plugin code:
Code:
$command = escapeshellcmd('python myScript.py');
    $output = shell_exec($command);
  //$output2 = shell_exec($command);
$arr = json_decode($output);
  var_dump ($arr)


and this is the python script:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python

 
import json
print (json.dumps([[1,2,3], [2,4,6]]));
 

However nothing is displayed in the plugin page.

Any help?

thank you.
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4 years 6 months ago #206586 by holch
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You are aware that Limesurvey runs on PHP, right?
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4 years 6 months ago #206611 by hagerregah
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I know, but when I tried the same python script ,that worked on a regular php page,on limesurvey , It did'nt display anything.
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4 years 6 months ago #206661 by holch
Replied by holch on topic How can I run Python scripts using limesurvey?

I know, but when I tried the same python script ,that worked on a regular php page,on limesurvey , It did'nt display anything.

I am not a Python expert, but you need to have some kind of python interpreter installed for the server to understand and execute it, right? It sounds weird to just paste a Python script into a PHP page and it runs. I don't think it usually works this way.
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4 years 6 months ago #206694 by DenisChenu
Replied by DenisChenu on topic How can I run Python scripts using limesurvey?

holch wrote:

I know, but when I tried the same python script ,that worked on a regular php page,on limesurvey , It did'nt display anything.

I am not a Python expert, but you need to have some kind of python interpreter installed for the server to understand and execute it, right? It sounds weird to just paste a Python script into a PHP page and it runs. I don't think it usually works this way.

Same for me, maybe we made error , but i think server parse PHP or Python. But not puyton inside PHP …
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