Perl Passing variable to PHP script

monger

Greetings to the folks here. I've been digging today to try and debug a project I've been given to work on. It involves a perl script parsing some text and then passing the results to PHP to do some db-based generation for a portion of a website. The line from the perl script looks like this:

Module:😛ROGS/wrapper.sh Module:😛ROGS/script.php 'port=$_[0]'

When the $port variable is referenced in the PHP script, I recieve a PHP Notice: Undefined Variable and the process fails at this point.

Also, register_globals is set to on in php.ini (Linux).

Are there any suggestions as to what to do? Given the 'bridge' problem here between the two languages, I'm not sure where to start.

Thanks,
monger

Kudose

Set $port as a session variable and recall it when you need.

...my 2 cents...

monger

That may be the way I have to go, but this portion of the code is not using HTTP - it's all shell scripted. The perl is not using any HTTP-ized modules to present the data that way. At one point, this worked passing the variable across a command line in one of the scripts.

Thanks for the idea.

monger

PHPMagician

Originally posted by monger
At one point, this worked passing the variable across a command line in one of the scripts.

And why not anymore? That is the easier solution. I mean, just

!#usr/bin/perl
system("directory/to/php/php script_name.php $port");

then within PHP

<?php
echo $_SERVER['argv'][1];
?>

Or ever thought of using an enviroment variable?

monger

Originally posted by PHPMagician
And why not anymore? That is the easier solution.

I say it worked earlier because it was buiilt on an earlier version of Linux than I have here. The upgraded perl, PHP, mySQL and some other peripheral stuff has me chasing down bugs.

Or ever thought of using an enviroment variable?

If I could set an array as an Environment variable and then have PHP parse it out into its constituent parts, that would work. As I've mentioned, I'm totally new with PHP. The perl stuff is more familiar.

Thanks,
monger