I want to change the default system $PATH var for the period of php script execution, but it for some reason fails.
Im trying the following:
<?php
$lastline = system('export PATH=$PATH:/customBin;',$return) OR die("why do i die all the time");
echo $lastline;
?>
But it obviously dies all the time. (tried on both RHEL & Debian linux distros, php version 5.3.xx, other system commands work fine (cat, ls, etc) neither of these work: export PATH=$PATH:/customBin;
OR export PATH=$PATH:/customBin:
OR export PATH=/customBin
, all of these work in the shell tho..)
Any help is appreciated. thanks.
EDIT: Above code is wrong, solution is to use putenv('PATH=$PATH:/customBin');