PHP interface to CGI?

tsits

This is an odd request as well as possibly the wrong forum as I am definitely a PHP Newb.

I am just learning PHP and learned how to make simple forms and take that information into a PHP script. I used this to make a feedback form and after some reading added some safety checks.

What I am trying to do now, is have a form with 2 fields (username/password) that when you hit the submit button would send the appropriate information to a cgi script elsewhere.

To be more specific. I currently have the form set but the form action is "http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi". This allows me to login to the other site through my own. Works like a champ. Problem is I don't want the source of the CGI viewable by someone just viewing the sourcecode nor my referral id which is in a hidden input field.

So I figure, just like with the mail.php script, I can have the post action set to "login.php" and that script would collect the variables and forward them to the cgi script.

I am sure that something like this is simple and quite possible so I am looking for some direction to set this up. Again, I am very new to PHP so don't assume I know most things.

Thanks for you time.

LordShryku

Could just re-establish the form on login.php....

<?php ### login.php ### ?>
<body onload="document.login.submit();">
<form name="login" action="/cgi-bin/login.cgi" method="post">
<?php
foreach($_POST as $k => $v) {
?>
<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo $k; ?>" value="<?php echo $v; ?>" />
<?php
}
?>
</form>
</body>

The onload will submit the form when the page is loaded....

tsits

Thanks for the help, I will look each of them commands up to better understand them. However just playing with the few basics I know I created this and it worked. Do you see anything wrong with how I did it?


<?php

  $id = $_REQUEST['id'];
  $pw = $_REQUEST['pw'];
  $qs = "my unique code";
  $cgi = "http://www.somesite.com/cgi-bin/thecgi.cgi";

header("Location: $cgi?id=$id&pw=$pw&code=$qs");

?>

LordShryku

Well, I don't know how the CGI is setup, but now you're sending the variables to the CGI as a GET method instead of POST. If it can handle that, then you should be okay...