PHP and perl

Hey,

I am trying to get php to run a cgi script for me and capture the output and echo that back to the screen. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

Thanx,
Big Din K.R.

>>capture the output and echo that back to the screen
Try fopen.
Note, your Perl script must accept GET method.

If you do the other way around or both scripts are in Perl, you can use POST method as well.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by freebsd:
>>capture the output and echo that back to the screen
Try fopen.
Note, your Perl script must accept GET method.

If you do the other way around or both scripts are in Perl, you can use POST method as well.[/quote]

Here is what I was using before...

popen("newsblocks/geeknews/geeknews.cgi", "r");

Changing to fopen sounds easy, but where or how do I the GET reference?

Thanx for the feedback as well.
Big Din K.R.

>>Changing to fopen sounds easy

Okay.

>>but where or how do I the GET reference?

That has to do with your Perl script. If you type the http://www.fullurl.com/to/newsblocks/geeknews/geeknews.cgi to the location box of your browser and get the output of your Perl script, then that's fine. That means your Perl script accepts GET method.

Hey FreeBSD,

Thanx for the info. The script does work in that fashion. I was just trying to call it as an include. Found out very fast that all it want's to do in that particular case is just display the script itself. Not good.

Thanx again,
bel_dan@linuxrookies.net