PLS HELP WITH CGI!!! i'm dying here

facundosuarez

HI.... I have to make the PHP cgi work to build a small web server. Usink win2k here.

Now: I just copied the .exe and dll and lib files (no ini) to a dir and tried to get it to work trying a small script.... it worked!!!

then I tried with GET requests by making
set QUERY_STRING=name=Joe
and THEN calling php.exe. It worked too!

but I CANNOT make it work with POST requests....
I understand all I need it to have set CONTENT_LENGHT=numbytes
and then write to post data to stdin and then just run PHP.EXE and call that php file.

what am I doing wrong??? pleeease help I'm exhausted of this.

laserw

Hi,

First, what you are asking about is not cgi it is a php problem.

Are you saying that you want to use post or get as in using a submit button?

Did you prepare your script using html and php?

Peter

facundosuarez

I'll be more specific.

I have a script.php like
<?
echo "the var in get is ".$_GET("var");
?>

and calling from w2k
SET QUERY_STRING=var=43
PHP.EXE script.php

IT WORKS PERFECTLY and outputs "the var in get is 43"

now I'm trying to achieve the same result with a script.php like

<?
echo "the var in post is ".$_POST("var");
?>

but I dunno how to call the script from w2k.... what enviroment variables do I have to use??? I understand
CONTENT_LENGHT=number of bytes in post and then the post data goes in stdin...

but how on earth do I put the data in stdin???

PLEASE HELP

facundosuarez

am I asking the wrong questions?

why doesn't anyone have answer for this!? it shouldn't be that difficult, should it???

🙁

hi-liter

try:

echo ("the var in post is $_POST[var]");

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.post

facundosuarez

no change. Same thing, but thanks for the advice.

why is "passing post parameters to php.exe" so undocumented!!!

I've been looking answers for DAYS and all I read about it is that I need the CONTENT_LENGTH variable and then I've to put the good stuff in stdin....

🙁

facundosuarez

OK HERE'S ME ANSWERING TO MYSELF AFTER HOURS OF TRIAL & ERROR

I hope this is useful to whoever runs into the same trouble as I did:

using script.php as before, make a datain.txt file that says:
var=44

then run:
SET "REQUEST_METHOD=POST" &
SET "CONTENT_LENGTH=6" &
SET "CONTENT_TYPE=application/x-www-form-urlencoded" &
PHP.EXE script.php <datain.txt

the output is:
"the var in POST is 44"

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!