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Hi

I would like to execute a script from the admin pages.  Basically want to provide a button / link (in Utilities, perhaps?) that can be clicked in the admin pages, that will run a Python script on the webserver.

Is this possible?  Where can I read more (Googling the wrong terms, I guess)

Thanks

x

You could just create a Quick Link using the little symbol in the topmost navigation bar or through “My Account”. Those are account-specific though.

Perfect!  thanks silenz.

Can EE execute python?  So far no luck with these sort of statements….

<?php 
echo "Hello, World!";
exec("sayhi.py");
echo "Script executed";
?>

EE is a PHP script. You can execute custom PHP commands, even in your templates, but not Python or other scripting languages.

Hi,

I have successfully invoked a Ruby script from within an extension. Remember that the shebang and the permissions of the script need to be right (chmod +x) and that the script can’t interact directly with the user’s browsing session. So, if your Python script is supposed to ‘say hi’ then that won’t work. You could use your other script to do background data processing etc but I’m not sure whether PHP blocks while the other script is doing its stuff and I don’t how you’d pass data or notifications back to PHP - I only tried this out from a geeky, academic interest point of view (basically got the Ruby script to create a new file and write to it) and not for any real task.

Cheers

Dry

you’d have to use exec(‘python sayhi.py’) to run a python script through the python CLI.