Passing variables

[Anon]

Hello,

i am writing a php script "a", that should call another php script "b" on the server.
the script "b" should receive different values in variables from script "a".

Because script "b" is not called via browser (it is called via unix shell) i cannot simply add a query string.

so, what do i have to write in script "a", to call a script "b", and what do i have to write in script "b", to read out the variables passed by script "a".

Tim

[Anon]

So long as script A isn't sending any output to a browser, you could just redirect to script B using the HTTP header function, you can then just include your variables as a query string.

Alternatively, you could just require or include script B.

Finally, if B isn't a PHP script, you could try exec() to call it and to parse the variables back and forth.

Hope this helps

Paul

[ame12]

Paul's answer sounds right to me. You can invoke the program using exec somewhat like this:

$cmdstring = "someapp \"".$arg1."\" \"".$arg2."\"";
exec($cmdstring);

where arg1 and arg2 are arguments which could contain white-space passed on to the app you're trying to execute.

Dave

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