How to make nginx restart on a website (PHP, Yii2)?

Question

Nginx

In other words, how NOT from the console, for example, when you click on a button, send a request, perform a certain action, reload nginx?
Those how to make control of the basic commands of the nginx server from the site?

Answer 1

shell_exec and properly configured sudoers with permission for "sudo -u root $cmd" to work without requiring a password from the user executing the code.

Answer 2

exec() function