Grabbing text output from a php system call into php variable

In the php script here, we've called the directory listing command of the operating system.

This page shows how to pull the output from this server-side command into a variable in the same php script.

You will probably want to parse this output in some way now that you've got it in a variable. Most likely you will do this using regular expressions in php. Here we have done simple parsing of data into an array.