Calling acgi script from PHP

JimFL · Nov 14, 2005

Hi,

I have a problem trying to call a CGI script from PHP index file. The following worked fine using an index.shtml file but it doesnt work once I change the extenstion to index.php . Can this be done simply using a php file?

<html>

<head>

Can anybody help?

DRJ478 · Nov 15, 2005

You have to be aware of the nature of server side include calls.
SSI in Apache are resolved by the Apache server itself - once the PHP interpreter takes the PHP code APache is not processing the SSI anymore - PHP processes.
You can easily write PHP code that executes the same CGI script. There are several commands like exec() and passthru(), however, to be safe, I recommend to use virtual() which generates a virtual Apache subrequest that is handled the same way SSI would be. That is safer since all access privileges and .htaccess directives etc. are still resolved by Apache itself.

JimFL · Nov 15, 2005

I have re-written the CGI script in PHP to perform a similar function. I was just wondering if there was a quick solution out there.

Thanks for your advice DRJ

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