sorry for the confusing response and yes, the cgi script is written in perl, and i'm still looking for ways to execute this script from php.
everything works okay until the cgi script uses a package. hope this helps making my question clearer. /bw -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:08 PM To: 'Boris Wong'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] configuration problem? I'm more confused now than ever. Originally you wanted to execute a .CGI script (presumably a PERL script) from inside a PHP script. Now it looks like you want to do just the opposite. If that's the case then you would be better served by posting your question in a PERL email list. -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Boris Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:53 PM To: Kevin Stone; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] configuration problem? thanks for the response. i have no problem executing a simple perl script using passthru() or system(), but looks like i can't use a package in that perl script. for example, i have a perl script like this: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use lib qw(/dept/tools/lib); #use myPackage; print "hello world\n"; <? //i call the script like this: exec("perl test.cgi",$output); print_r($output); //and the output prints out "hello world" ?> but when i uncomment the 'use myPackage' nothing shows up. please help. /bw -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:14 AM To: 'Boris Wong'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] configuration problem? I believe include() will only work if the CGI script is written in PHP. You should be able to extract the results of a foreign script by running passthru() or system(). For example if I wanted to print out a listing of all the files in a directory. <? // Command to print out my public html directory. $cmd = 'ls /home/www -l'; // Display the result as plain text, not html. header('Content-type: text/plain'); // Loop to echo the result line by line. while($line = system($cmd)) { if ($line == flase){break;) // break if function returns false. else {echo $line . '\n';} // print the line. } ?> You can use the optional input to pass a CGI script some variables. I don't use the command line very often so I don't know the proper system command to execute a script. I imagine it's 'run' or 'execute' or something like that. But I'm sure it's possible. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.system.php -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Boris Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] configuration problem? btw, the reason i want to use include() is that i have a cgi script under the same directory structure but i don't want to use exec() since this command can't execute the cgi well enough (for one thing, the cgi script doesn't work well when i include "use warnings;" or create an object).... and including the cgi script won't execute it so this won't work. i'm thinking of including the cgi script via http like: include ('http://www.myurl.com/hello.cgi') but the browser keeps on loading the page and returns a blank page eventually. contrastly, including a cgi script from other domains works just fine. /bw -----Original Message----- From: Boris Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] configure problem? hi, got a question on the usage of include: when i do something like this: <? include('http://www.myurl.com'); ?> where my php file is located under the same directory structure of www.my.url.com, the browse seems keep on loading until it returns a blank page. does this mean that php can't include any file located in the same directory structure of itself? or is it more like a configuration problem? here's my configure command from phpinfo(), if this helps: './configure' '--prefix=/opt/third-party/depot/Linux-2.2c2.1-i686/php-4.0.5' '--with-apache=/workplace/dpd/btp/apache_1.3.20' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-config-file-path=/opt/third-party/depot/Linux-2.2c2.1-i686/php-4 .0.5 /lib' '--enable-exif' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-calendar=shared' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-wddx' '--enable-ftp' '--with-ldap' thank you! /bw -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
