On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Marc Aymerich <glicer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I have a PHP app that I want to convert to django. But I want to do it >> stages. All the heavy lifting is in the PHP code, so first, I want to >> just use templates and views to generate the HTML, but still call the >> PHP code. Then later convert the PHP to python. >> >> My issue is that the PHP code expects to get all it's input from the >> REQUEST object and I've consumed that in the view. Is there any way I >> can somehow supply that to the PHP code? >> >> Is there some way python can communicate like curl ... it needs to >> send the request string in the body of a POST request to the URL that >> will route to the PHP script and get the output back. > > > Yes, > I supose you can extract the needed information from the django > Request object and call the php script passing the needed variables as > environment state. > > as a guideline you can do something like > > cmd = ( > 'REDIRECT_STATUS=200 ' > 'REQUEST_METHOD=GET ' > 'SCRIPT_FILENAME=htdocs/index.php ' > 'SCRIPT_NAME=/index.php ' > 'PATH_INFO=/ ' > 'SERVER_NAME=site.tld ' > 'SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1 ' > 'REQUEST_URI=/nl/page ' > 'HTTP_HOST=site.tld ' > '/usr/bin/php-cgi' > ) > subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
Thanks very much Marc. In the example, how is the request string passed in? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list