Problem with php scripting

Hello, I wrote a php script to synchronize local dir with remote dir. The local dir is on a pc with xampp installed, so php is available just from localhost with the browser.

Environment is windows seven.

I'm quite sure that it was working, but unfortunately I had to stop the development for many days and now when I came back to it, it doesn't work.

Here is where it blocks:

system ("\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\WinSCP\\WinSCP.exe\" /script=C:\mydir\Script\global.txt /log=C:\primarmi\Log\global_log.txt", $exitcode);

It returns 1 for exitcode, so according to https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation_advanced#external there was an error.

I put all those backslashes according to this: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php

my global.txt contains this:


Tried to enable loggin, with no luck (or at least, nothing was logged. Is it possible that winscp neither started?)

Any hint on what to do?

You should definitelly use winscp.com, not winscp.exe.

Thank you Martin,
Now I obtain this error message:

Cannot open file C:\mydir\Script

without the filename totale.txt

I searched the forum, but didn't find another with the same problem, only a user who had encoding problem. About encoding, I use geany as text editor and my file is encoded with UTF-8

I'm sure the path is correct (just to avoid mismatches I copied the path from the error message and pasted on window and it was ok).

I'm using Version 4.3.7 Build 1679

Any hint?

You need to escape the backslashes too, just as you did with path to WinSCP
system ("\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\WinSCP\\WinSCP.exe\" /script=C:\\mydir\\Script\\global.txt /log=C:\\primarmi\\Log\\global_log.txt", $exitcode);

Thank you Martin, it was that :oops: