How to check if a shell command exists from PHP

Question

I need something like this in php:

If (!command_exists(\'makemiracle\')) {
  print \'no miracles\';
  return FALSE;
}
else {
  // safely call the command kno         


        

Answer 1

Based on @jcubic and that 'which' should be avoided, this is the cross platform I came up with:

function verifyCommand($command) :bool {
  $windows = strpos(PHP_OS, 'WIN') === 0;
  $test = $windows ? 'where' : 'command -v';
  return is_executable(trim(shell_exec("$test $command")));
}