What are the possible methods to do this? When I either open a page or click a button on my PHP website, it runs a python program that returns some data (maybe a string) back to PHP. It seems people keep saying to use exec or shell exec, but I tested this on WAMP, didn't work for me (perhaps I did something wrong). Is there a method I could do something like an API but not to access a database but to just run a program? I was able to get something using: exec('python get.py', $output); var_dump($output); using the above, I got this output: C:\wamp64\www\ai\get.php:10: array (size=0) empty My python code is just a print statement that says hello world. Do I need something for python side? Continue reading...
