PHP GDAL/OGR library usage, which approach is cleaner?

Question

I will be using gdal/ogr for a new project. I want a lean but fully functional app, so will not be using other implementations such as mapserver, because they have extraneous co

Answer 1

You can use the Symfony Process-Component, avoiding plain exec commands.
It has a great syntax and is very easy to use.

http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/process.html

$process = new Process('ls -lsa');
$process->run();

// executes after the command finishes
if (!$process->isSuccessful()) {
    throw new ProcessFailedException($process);
}

echo $process->getOutput();