[genevish]

I have a line in my PHP script:

exec('osascript /Library/Scripts/Info\ Scripts/Current\ iTunes\ Song.scpt');

It seemed to work once, but it hasn't since. Any ideas? I can run this same command from the terminal just fine...

[Diggory Laycock]

PHP is being run by the user WWW - not you - so it fails when it is run - WWW is not logged in through LoginWindow - and therefore cannot use AppleScript.

(as far as I remember)

[genevish]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
PHP is being run by the user WWW - not you - so it fails when it is run - WWW is not logged in through LoginWindow - and therefore cannot use AppleScript.

(as far as I remember)

Good thinking, but I tried:

sudo -u www osascript /Library/Scripts/Info\ Scripts/Current\ iTunes\ Song.scpt

...from the command line, which runs the command as the www user and it worked. I'll try turning on error checking...

[genevish]

OK Diggory, you were essentailly right. The error is:

INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the WindowServer

It's related to the fact that the user that Apache runs as, www, does not have a windowserver running, which Applescript needs. Any workaround for this?

Thanks,

-Scott

[Chris O'Brien]

what does osascript -l AppleScript -e 'whatever the script is' do?

Just wondering if it's because it can't execute an already written script or because osascript can't function....

[genevish]

It's a simple script that gets the current track from iTunes and saves it t a text file. PHP then parses that text file and displays the result on the page.

I found a workaround by using Recent Tunes, although I'd prefer not to have to run another application...

[philzilla]

just run the headless version of Kung-Tunes and worry about other things in life.