including cgi on a php page?

[Anon]

Like a lot of people I am relatively new to php.

I would like to include a cgi script on a .php page (instead of the way I have been doing it in the past with .shtml server side includes)

I hope this is a relatively simple task, because it would be impratical to find new php scripts and redo all our websites at this stage.

I have tried this already, and basically the cgi code gets "displayed" rather than executing.

hope you can help.

[blizzard]

I don't understand why you want to encapsulate cgi into php, if I were you i would leave it to cgi and let the httpserver handle the requests to them...

but should it be really necessary, than try a passthru function:

<?
passthru("myprogram.cgi");
?>
this way you can also output other stuff like images if you use
<?
header("Content Type: image/gif");
pasthru("imagegenerator.cgi");
?>