sudo in php exec()

Question

I don\'t know what the deal is here…

So I want to run an applescript: sudo osascript myscript.scpt

This works fine in the terminal, but not when

Answer 1

I had a similar situation trying to exec() a backend command and also getting no tty present and no askpass program specified in the web server error log. Original (bad) code:

$output = array();
$return_var = 0;
exec('sudo my_command', $output, $return_var);

A bash wrapper solved this issue, such as:

$output = array();
$return_var = 0;
exec('sudo bash -c "my_command"', $output, $return_var);

Not sure if this will work in every case. Also, be sure to apply the appropriate quoting/escaping rules on my_command portion.