How to Include a CGI File?

acidbox

In my PHP page, I want to call out to an external CGI file and retreive results from it, display those results in the page and then continue parsing. For instance...

http://www.asite.com/program?name=whatever&flag=1

I want the results of that offsite program to be included in my PHP file.

I tried using fopen and include, but it always tells me that it Unable to open remote file. However, if i take the exact URL and put it in the address bar in IE, it opens fine.

Anyone know how I can do this?

epp_b

What you're trying to do will be very complicated -- depending on what exactly you want to do with the CGI file. If all you want to do is read it character-for-character, and output the code (not the result of the code's execution), then it's not a problem:

$fp = file("script.cgi");
$eof = count($file);
for ($i=0;$i<$eof;$i++) {
echo $fp[$i] . "<br>";
}

That will just output the code as it is in the editor (which is probably not what you intended)

However, if you are trying execute the code, that will be somewhat complicated. using include() or require() will try to execute the script, but, obviously will not work due to incompatibility. You can search the manual for topics on working with CGI scripts.