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opening an external application

13stein.j

Junior Member
Is there any way to open an application on someone else's computer? For mac, let's say the terminal, linux, the terminal as well, and windows the cmd, since everyone has said programs. I have tried using php to open an applescript, and vb script, but it doesn't work.
 
It is not possible to make a webpage to launch an external application because of security reasons. At least not with any server-side solution (like PHP). Imagine if webpages where allowed to run programs on our machines? On Windows there's a walkaround to this use javascript (which is client-side) but it will only work on IE. See this link from Stack Overflow: EXE from JavaScript.

This other link can also be of help: How to run external program ... using hyperlink?
 
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