Comments on: HOWTO Make your Mac speak over the Web

By: Amanjeev

Amanjeev — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:59:57 +0000

oh. Learnt something new today.

By: Manas Tungare

Manas Tungare — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:28:52 +0000

Yes, and those are backticks. http://us3.php.net/language.operators.execution

By: Amanjeev

Amanjeev — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:17:48 +0000

`$cmd`;

Would just this work? I had only heard of exec() function in PHP. Please throw some light on this one. I am confused.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:20:09 +0000

Just enable PHP

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20...

By: txturbo

txturbo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:23:08 +0000

OK... I got it top work, sort of, by using a real text editor,
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

But now I don't get any sound...

By: txturbo

txturbo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:47:44 +0000

When I try it I get this error in Safari …

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /Library/WebServer/Documents/say.php on line 8
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in /Library/WebServer/Documents/say.php on line 9

By: Manas Tungare

Manas Tungare — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:44:09 +0000

I don't have a clean install to test with, but I believe the standard Mac OS X setup has PHP disabled, but not shell execution in PHP. In any case, if it's disabled, and users don't have the knowledge of why it is disabled by default, I'd rather not provide step-by-step instructions to opening up their machine to the world. The half knowledge of telling them how to do it, without knowing why, can be dangerous.

By: cshotton

cshotton — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:27:21 +0000

Doesn't work on a lot of Macs, apparently. Executing local shell commands is something that has to be enabled. Might want to add some examples of how to do that for people who try this hint and don't get it to work.

By: Manas Tungare

Manas Tungare — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:21:35 +0000

Seems like PHP has not been enabled on your machine. Here are instructions for Leopard (you don't need to enable MySQL, so ignore the second part) and Tiger.

By: rburress

rburress — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:14:28 +0000

I've followed the directions.
But mine just brings up the TEXT on a new webpage.
No dialog box, simply the:
if (isset($_GET['say'])) {
$cmd = sprintf('say "%s"', $_GET['say']);
`$cmd`;

} else if

ETC.

By: Manas Tungare

Manas Tungare — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:14:35 +0000

Test

By: Jayesh

Jayesh — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:52:04 +0000

Ha ha ha!!!

Great post!