On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Michael Orion Jackson wrote:
> Well, if PHP is a standalone executable (i.e. the CGI version),
> then you could probably call it like any other system command in perl and
> catch the output that way (e.g:
> open (IN, "/path/to/binary arguments |") or die ("$!\n");
> while (<IN>) {
> chomp $_;
> # $_ containes each line of ouput in order, with no
> # newline becuase of the chomp.
> }
>
> or
>
> @output = `/path/to/binary arguments`;
> foreach $line (@output) {
> as above
> }
I don't know if this is obvious or not, but if you use $arguments, instead
of of arguments, and $arguments is influenced by a CGI variable in any
way, be *very* careful if you use $arguments in the command-line.
Also, I suggest using the -T flag (Taint mode) if you are using Perl w/
Apache.
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universe."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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