including a .cgi file in .php document

[Anon]

i have a voteing script written in .cgi. if i run it within the document voting.shtml it works fine. if i rename the document to voting.php, the server can`t call it anymore.

is there a way to include a .cgi file in a .php document ?

thanks werner

[Anon]

if the cgi script is written in php the server needs to be configured to know what to do with php files

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

if the cgi is written in something else then of course changing the file to .php won\'t make it a php file.

[theslinky]

Also, if the script is NOT written in PHP and you want to simply call it as a binary file, use the system() or exec() command to call it from a shell and to get its output.

Remember, if it's a perl program, you can pass in variables using this format:

system("voting.cgi name=value arg2=value arg3=value");

-sridhar

[Anon]

Yeah, that's basic CGI protocol - any program that's supposed to run as a CGI should be able to do that.