I am building an HTML document that is meant to run locally. On it is a button that I would like to have run a Python script when clicked. I'm trying to use a PHP-generated button. There's no input or output that I want to associate with the button; I just want it to run the script, which produces charts as image files that the rest of the page uses. I have tried a couple different ways to do it, including putting the PHP part in the HTML document, before the HTML:
<?phpif (isset($_POST['update'])){exec('python myScript.py');}
>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body><form name="update" method="post" >
<button name = "update" type="submit"> Update charts </button>
</form></body>
I've also tried making the PHP code its own .php document in the same directory and calling it from the HTML code as so:
<form action = "updateCharts.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="update" />
</form>
where updateCharts.php is:
<?phpsystem('cd C:\My\Script\Path');system('python MyScript.py');
?>
I've also tried substituting "system" with "exec" but to no avail. In the first part, I click the button and nothing happens. In the second, I click the button and I am taken to the text of the PHP document. In neither case does my Python script run!
Does anyone see what I'm missing? I'm admittedly a novice with php so it may be something glaring. Thanks for the help!