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Great to hear about the file i/o benchmarking results. Thanks!

Both the file and clipboard methods seem sloppy to me.

The php file I'm calling is a database api that I run many times a second to pull information from the database. Using file i/o would certainl ...

Thanks.

I've actually gone the PHP route and needing only an integer value from the database returned, I'm able to pass it from the PHP to AHK via the exit code.

Hi,
Crossposting the following from this post:

CMDout=
CMDerr=
ProgramName := "C:\php\php.exe getVPIP.php 5"

Ret := RunWaitEx(ProgramName, NULL, TextIn, CMDout, CM ...

Ok. I got method 1 to work, but I'd still like to learn more about how CMDret works. The first method is acceptable because my passed value can be an integer, but in the future it would help to have t ...

Thanks for the reply.

Changing the return syntax as you suggest doesn't seem to matter. I think the nuance may be whether or not you follow Return with a comma.
Return, %RetVal%

...as opposed t ...

I have the following ahk script that is supposed to execute my php program, passing the value 5. Then the ahk script should receive a single value from the program.

None of the 3 methods I've tried ...

Hi,

I have a pretty simple SQL call I want to make to my postgreSQL db, and I'm looking for any direction you can give. I'm guessing some sort of api (hopefully already written) is what I need.

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