PHP with Perl

[bogan]

Hi,
Sorry to bother you, I was wondering if someone could answer a question about php and cgi working together.

I saw in the notes on PHP.net:

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Here is something I thought up and it works rather well... this is a way to do CGI form prossessing inside a PHP file... just do this for the include
<?php virtual("./../cgi-bin/newspub/search.cgi?$QUERY_STRING"); ?>
for this example i use news-publisher.
then for the forms that normaly interact with that CGI put in the action=the php script and the method=get so it will transfer all the information through the querry string

works very well...

On my PHP page (main.php) I have a Perl mailing list script (mailscript.cgi).
At the moment I'm getting the mail form to post to main.php?document=mailscript
In using this code in my PHP file to execute the cgi script.
<?php virtual("./cgi-bin/".$document.".cgi"); ?>
The problem I'm having is that the variables that the user enters in the form do not seem to get through.
I was wondering if someone could help or if someone knew what the problem is.
The site is located at http://www.theconceptonline.com/main.php
Enter [e-mail] as an email address to signup to the mailing list.
If you have time to help me out it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance
Tim Burgan

[brandonschnell]

look at your html.

you can't send POST & GET vars at the same time. you're posting the form data but sending the var "document=mailmachine" as part of the url (as a GET var).

change:
<form action="http://www.theconceptonline.com/main.php?document=mailmachine" method=post>

to:
<form action="http://www.theconceptonline.com/main.php" method=post>
<input type="hidden" name="document" value="mailmachine">

if the vars don't seem to be getting through, change your method to get and check the url to see whats going on.

[Anon]

Perhaps you can help !
I have a perl cgi that expects name=value pairs from a post.

How can I pass these var pairs to my cgi from within a PHP script using system() or virtual()?

If a $QUERY_STRING is all that is needed !
How would I build this for the 3 var pairs bellow ?

<?
$name="Peter";
$email="[e-mail]";
$URL="http://66.34.80.190";
$goto=$name.$email.$URL;

system("/usr/bin/perl  /home/mydomain/www/cgi-bin/goto.cgi  '$goto'");
or
virtual("  cgi-bin/goto.cgi?$QUERY_STRING");

?>

Thanks so much,
Peter