Calling a CGI

JHobbs

Hi All,
Perhaps this is a dumb question, but I've just started using PHP.

I have a WinCGI application that returns text/plain MIME Type. I want to call this CGI and assign the return value to a variable. Does any one know how this can be done from a function?

For example:

<?php
function LoadStr()
{
Global $X;
$X=/Win-CGI/MyCGI.exe/GetStr;
echo "<BR>$X";
}
?>

Thank you for any help in advance

Wynder

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.passthru.php

JHobbs

Thank you for your response.

I notice from the documentation that the Passthru return_var is a Unix binary command. Will this work when executing a windows CGI?

daveyboy

if your cgi script is running in a webserver, you can just use fopen('http://localhost/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi') and fread to get the output.

Valera

	function list_httpd()
	{
		$this->list_process_apache=0;
		exec("ps aux|grep httpd",$resultArray);
		reset($resultArray);
		while (list ($key, $val) = each ($resultArray))
		{
		$resultLines .= "<br>\n" . trim($val);
			$this->list_process_apache++;
		}
	echo $resultLines."<BR>".$this->list_process_apache;
	}