system() call causes failure

[Lpsd]

It seems that calling system() from PHP causes things to fail in some way. Take the following example:

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; 
use MultiTheftAuto\Sdk\Mta;

$input = Mta::getInput();
Mta::doReturn($input[0]);

Create a basic Lua script using callRemote and call this PHP script. It simply returns the value that you passed to it (works fine).

Now try the following:

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; 
use MultiTheftAuto\Sdk\Mta;

system("ls");

$input = Mta::getInput();
Mta::doReturn($input[0]);

This will result in failure, and return nil instead of the value you passed to callRemote.

As a note, this issue was present in the previous version of the PHP SDK.

[ecastro98]

Did you check the PHP response outside MTA?

MTA needs a JSON to parse it as function arguments but the function system, as the page says, display the output "polluting" the JSON that Mta::doReturn() prints.

On the other hand, exec has the same function but omitting the print. That's why change system to exec is a solution.

[Lpsd]

Noted, I didn't realise that system is actually outputting stuff. Sorry!

[ecastro98]

No problem!