parsing text/plain data coming from a HTTP POST

[Anon]

Hi,

imagine this scenario

application --sends data via http post--> webserver/phpscript

in perl i can do:

open FH,"/tmp/myfile";
while (<STDIN>) { print FH,$_; }

the aequivalent in php doesn't work (empty file)

$FH=fopen("php://stdin","r");
while (!feof($FH)) {
$s=fgets($FH,4096);

.... etc
Why is that so?

[Anon]

You do not need to parse the data passed as POST or GET, they will be parsed for you and put into globals and the HTTP_POST_VARS (and/or HTTP_GET_VARS) array. You can picke them up from there.

That is the advantage of using PHP which is tailored to work on the web, versus a general scripting language that needs special handling for the parsing or an extra parsing module.

If the data is referenced by the variable named "foo", just do:

<?php
echo $foo;
?>

HTH

[Anon]

I know that x-form-urlencoded data is parsed
automatically by php, and yes, thats a fine
feature.

But is there the possibility to avoid this behaviour
and parse it all by my self just as i would with a
ordinary perl, c, whatever cgi program?

xris