SSI and PHP?

[Anon]

Hi,

I want to use SSI to execute a CGI-script on one of my PHP-pages.

How do I make this work with a PHP-page? I know how to make it work on a SHTML page but on a PHP page?

/Björn

[Anon]

I've never tried this before...but if you set up the SSI engine to parse not only .shtml but also .php then you might be able to do your php inside the <? ?> tags and then do your SSI outside those. You can mix and match too: execute some php inside <? ?>, then print the SSI, then finish up the PHP with <? ?>. Give it a shot, I have no idea if it will work or not, i've never thought about having a single page "double executed" at all.

You might be best off just learning how to do the SSI calls in PHP.

-Chris

[Anon]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I've been thinking on setting up the server so it treats all php files as SHTML files but since I only will use it on 1 or 2 pages it felt like an overkill. I've also thought about "creating" a sphp extension which is treated like the shtml extension.

What I want to do is simply to execute a cgi-script on the page. It's a weather cgi-script that I thought would be fun to provide for the users on our Intranet so they can keep tabs on the weather 🙂.

I know how to do it via SSI calls - but I must admit I haven't learned how to call an cgi-script via PHP yet.

I know there's something called exec() in PHP. Is this the command I should use to execute the cgi-script?

Thanks for all help

/Björn