Using a PowerShell command within PHP works until I try this

In a PowerShell console a XenApp cmdlet works simply like this. I get all sessions for the designated Citrix user:

[CODE]Get-XASession | where {$_.accountname -LIKE “domainJoeB”}[/CODE]

That’s simply pure PowerShell.. Now I am able to run PowerShell commands in a PHP script like this:

[CODE]<?php
$my_array2 = array();
exec(‘powershell.exe -command “Get-XASession | Select -Property accountname, logontime ” <NUL ‘, $my_array);`
?>[/CODE]

Simple stuff, but having all Citrix sessions sent to a web page is not very useful. Rather I want to filter the User ID in PHP as I did in the first code example.

However I can’t do this:

[CODE]<?php
$my_array = array();
exec(‘powershell.exe -command “Get-XASession | Select -Property accountname, logontime | where {$_.accountname -LIKE “domainJoeB” } ” <NUL ‘, $my_array);`
?>[/CODE]

As a result I get all sessions in the Citrix farm as the filter for accountname is not read in. It’s seemingly a PHP issue wherein my inclusion of double quotes to define the value of accoutname are messing up the PHP. The command is being truncated prematurely is my guess.

So next I tried this, hoping to have those double quotes surrounding domainjoeb be escaped from the PHP:

[CODE]exec(‘powershell.exe -command “Get-XASession | Select -Property accountname, logontime | where {$_.accountname -LIKE ‘. “domainJoeB” . ‘} ” <NUL ‘, $my_array);`[/CODE]

I get nothing returned. I ultimately want to do this with a variable captured from an HTML form wherein the user supplies the accountame, but for now am just trying to see if this can work with a hard-coded User ID. I think I’m being PHP syntax challenged.

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