Joining an Active Directory domain using netdom

Question

I have a text file with the following data

//info.txt
$ip = "192.168.12.201"
$sno = "some text"
$mac = "some text"

I want to be able to convert these variables from the text file into PHP variables to be checked with presaved data. I'm able to do this in python but it causes and extra redundant step. Could what I'm trying to achieve be done in PHP?

Solution

I suspect your double percent signs are the culprit.

You can see how it's executing in your batch file by adding an echo on immediately before the first netdom and running the batch file from an elevated command prompt. I expect that you're going to see something like:

netdom join %THE_COMPUTER_NAME% /domain:OPSCODEDEMO.COM /userd:Administrator /passwordd:xxx

How you're getting it to work at all w/ the double percent signs, even just running those commands on the CLI "by hand", is baffling me.

Comments

[marc_s]

Totally off-topic for a programming-related Q&A site - this belongs on Serverfault.com where sysadmins hang out ...

[Matt]

If you're able to put <?php ?> inside the text file, you should be able to include it using include('info.txt'); - This may also help php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

[Alexander]

Possible duplicate of How to evaluate formula passed as string in PHP?