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Run Grunt commands from PHP on Windows

To run grunt commands from PHP on my Mac, I can use putenv

to tell PHP where NodeJS lives and the global PATH so that I can run grunt commands like:

putenv('PATH=' . getenv('PATH') . ':/usr/local/bin');
exec('grunt watch');

But on Windows 7, NodeJS is in a different location ...

First I tried:

putenv('PATH=' . getenv('PATH') . ':C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs');

This is where NodeJS itself lives, but it doesn't work ...

and then tried:

putenv('PATH=' . getenv('PATH') . ':C:\Users\cameron.drysdale\AppData\Roaming\npm');

Where does npm live (I don't know why on Windows it lives in diff location for exe). But then again it doesn't work, and I get an error that grunts - unknown command. grunt-cli is definitely installed globally!

Any ideas on what the path should be for Windows?

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The solution was to use both!

$putenv = putenv('PATH=' . getenv('PATH') . ';C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs;C:\Users\cameron.drysdale\AppData\Roaming\npm');


and also use ;

instead :

for separator (as Pieter Hoste commented)

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