Passing a command with spaces on Windows doesn't work

[DomiQ]

Sorry for moving the thread around, I got really confused with all the code.
When I try passing this as an exaple:

 '..\..\..\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe http://localhost/Ponudomat/printRdy.php print.pdf'

The program returns this:

'..\..\..\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

It separates the DIR into different commands because of the spaces, to fix it you need to pass the DIR within the "" and that's where the problem kicks in.

When I try:

 '"..\..\..\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe" http://localhost/Ponudomat/printRdy.php print.pdf'

I just keep getting the same error as the one above.
When I try adding "/ instead of " to try and force php into making a quote within a string.
This is the confusing part, when I put:

 '"/..\..\..\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe"/ http://localhost/Ponudomat/printRdy.php print.pdf'

It actually runs the command and partially works. So now I got the .exe running but it gives me an error as it cannot read the parameters it needs because of the "/ so I get:

Loading pages (1/6) [> ] 0% [===> ] 5% [======> ] 10% Error: Failed loading page file:///C:/ (sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with --load-error-handling ignore) [========> ] 14% [=========> ] 15% [==========> ] 17% [============> ] 20% [=================================> ] 55% Exit with code 1 due to network error: ContentOperationNotPermittedError

Because the command is as follows getCommand:

/..\..\..\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe"/ http://localhost/Ponudomat/printRdy.php print.pdf

[mikehaertl]

Thanks. TBH I wont find much time currently to look deeper into this issue - which is moreover a bit hard for me, since I don't use any Windows.

If you happen to find a solution, I'd be happy to include it. The code for the class itself is not very complicated. Most if it is used to manage console arguments. The main magic with escaping happens in setCommand(). You may also want to play around with escapeArgs and escapeCommand properties.

Thanks for helping in improving this class for Windows users!

[mikehaertl]

One more thing: You seem to have messed up the order when you try to escape a character. First, inside ' you don't to escape any ". If you need a ' inside of single quotes, you have to write it as \' not as '\. Just saying, maybe i was misreading.

[DomiQ]

I've done some digging around and it turns out that windows command shell has a preset shortcut for "/Program Files" witch is "/Progra~1/". this is only works for the directory in question and is not applicable to the rest of the file system as far as I know
This works when I pass it, mby we should add a notice to documentation but it's not really something worth coding for in my opinion.

[DomiQ]

This does mean that anybody accessing files with spaces in windows might have trouble but I'll look into that some more and try to find a way to use thees quotes.
Because there's really no other way to access dose.

[mikehaertl]

I'm pretty sure that there's a way to make it work with spaces. Let's keep this issue open for reference.

[mikehaertl]

Here's a comment from the proc_open() PHP manual page that seems to address and solve the issue:

If you are working on Windows and try to proc_open an executable that contains spaces in its path, you will get into trouble.

But there's a workaround which works quite well. I have found it here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4410389/1119601

For example, if you want to execute "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe", you will get the error that the command could not be found.
Try this:

<?php
$cmd = 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe';
if (strtolower(substr(PHP_OS,0,3)) === 'win') {
    $cmd = sprintf('cd %s && %s', escapeshellarg(dirname($cmd)), basename($cmd));
}
?>