ricocrivelli's avatar

Execute a node script in Laravel

I need to run a node script inside my Laravel application.

I've tried using the Symfony Process, but it kill the process after the PHP execution and I need to keep the node process running, so my next step was try to use the shell_exec and exec functions. It's worked nice in the tinker and in Tinkerwell, but when I try to use inside the Laravel class it gives the following error 500:

production.ERROR: Call to undefined function shell_exec() {"exception":"[object] (Error(code: 0): Call to undefined function shell_exec() at ...

As it is a VPS I set my php.ini to disable_functions= but it still not working inside Laravel, only if I use it outside the framework.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English.

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aschmelyun's avatar

@ricocrivelli Did you restart your php process after making the changes to your ini file? That's the only thing that I could think might be holding this up.

ricocrivelli's avatar

I ended giving up. I've developed an workaround.

Instead calling the node file by PHP, I made a node script whit express who receives a POST request and start the code.

Now I can put my node code in another server and it will keep running with no problems and make my system scalable.

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