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This should be possible. Make sure your web server (or PHP interpreter) has the proper environment setup when it tries to invoke rostopic (ie: equivalent of source setup.bash).

Alternative (and I think preferred): use rosbridge_suite and use the JSON interface from your PHP script.

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