passing parameters to a script

HaraldF

Hello! I have a javascript that shall be called from a web page. So I call a PHP first and submit the parameters via GET appended to the URL:

http://www.abc.com/test.php?p1=abc&p2=bcd&p3= ... &param15=xyz

Now inside my PHP I want to start the javascript with these parameters. :queasy: Any suggestions for a smart forwarding of all the parameters?

I could manually assemble them as command line parameters. :rolleyes: I have to care for entries containing blanks or other special characters?!?

Any better Idea?

Thanks and best regards,

Harald

Damian_

have you tried the post method and storing them

$abc = $_POST['abc'];

for instance ?

HaraldF

Hello Damian,

thanks for your answer. I think my question was not clear enough. I know how to obtain the URL params via $GET or $POST.

But I want to forward these params (15!) to a javascript that I have to call from my PHP. Do I have to fetch every single param and write it into a shell_exec command line?

How shall I handle special chars and blanks within the params values?

Best regards, Harald

Damian_

do u have any code that we can see you have written?

HaraldF

You assume I'm a nerd... But that's only partially true ;-)

The javascript is running server-side! I use CasperJS and PhantomJS to receive the params.

My problem is that I have to convert and forward URL params into commandline params in PHP. Don't bother what I'm calling, but in any case it's a program running on my server.

Another approach was to include javascript into the CGI of my server. So I could circumvent the PHP step. But I didn't manage to get that working in my apache.

If I was doing something usual, I would have found several answers on the web. Unfortunately this seems to be something new.

Thanks for your patience with me!

Greets, Harald

HaraldF

My PHP program calls a serverside JavaScript via CasperJS. It looks this way:

<?php
echo shell_exec('casperjs doSomething.js '.escapeshellarg(json_encode($_GET)));
?>

All params in $_GET are encoded into one string and it is transferred as the first shell argument. This works because it is escaped first. The shell_exec calls the server-side JavaScript. The result of the JavaScript is returned using echo.

In JavaScript the params in the first commandline argument are decoded again:

var paramlist='';
paramList=JSON.parse(casper.cli.get(0));
var param1=paramList.aParam;

.cli is the command line interface. The params can be accessed using their names. That's rather easy, direct and short.

A result in JavaScript can be transferred via JSON too:

this.echo('{"res1":"'+param1+'","res2":"'+paramList.bParam+'"}');

Regards, Harald