PHP Script Passing from HTTP

Brad_Bennett

I have been given a left over script to figure out how to pass data into it.
The script was designed to take data from a pager service and add it to a text file on the server, to be viewed later.

This is the script.

<?
define('PAGER_DATA','data/pager_data.txt');
$user = (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['cgeu'])) ? $HTTP_POST_VARS['cgeu'] : '';
$pass = (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['cgep'])) ? $HTTP_POST_VARS['cgep'] : '';

if($user=='logger' && $pass=='pass') {
$date = (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['date'])) ? $HTTP_POST_VARS['date'] : '';
$time = (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['time'])) ? $HTTP_POST_VARS['time'] : '';
$interest = (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['interest'])) ? $HTTP_POST_VARS['interest']: '';
$message = (isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['message'])) ? stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS['message']) : '';

// echo "[$date][$time][$interest][$message]";
echo 'OK';

// regenerate file if missing
if(!file_exists(PAGER_DATA)) {
touch(PAGER_DATA);
chmod(PAGER_DATA,0777);
}

//open file for appending write (add a newline/carriage return set)
$rdate = date('Y.m.d H:i:s'); // YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM:SS
if($fp = @fopen(PAGER_DATA, "a")) {
fwrite($fp,$rdate.'|'.$date.'|'.$time.'|'.$interest.'|'.$message."\n");
fclose($fp);
}
}
else {
echo 'NO';
}
?>

if I ran the script how would I get the vars into it?

http://url.com/pager.php?cgeu=logger&cgep=pass..... etc...

Would that work? What changes would be needed to make it work that way.

Cheers in advance.

Krik

Firsts that script has got to be very old. In php 4.1.0 they changed from using $HTTP_POST_VARS to using $_POST. The current version is 5.3.3. That code is likely 6 or more years old. Literally a dinosaur as far as PHP goes.

Now if you replace all the $HTTP_POST_VARS with $_POST it should bring it up to date as everything else looks ok.

Now to your question.

http://url.com/pager.php?cgeu=logger&cgep=pass

That could work but you would have to use $GET instead of $POST to retrieve the values.