How can PHP be used to open a screen, give a process a command via SSH, and keep the screen active?

To achieve this, you can use the `shell_exec` function in PHP to execute an SSH command that opens a screen, gives a process a command, and keeps the screen active. You can use the `-t` flag with SSH to allocate a pseudo-terminal, which allows the screen to stay active even after the PHP script has finished executing. 

<?php
$command = 'ssh -t user@hostname "screen -dmS myscreen bash -c \'your_command_here; exec bash\'"';
$output = shell_exec($command);
echo $output;
?>

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PHP screen SSH process active

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