Passing Variables (HTML) -> PHP -> CGI

Anon

Hi Forum!
I have the following problem:
I have a webpage, where I can send SMS.
The page is based on a Form (HTML).
I can easily send SMS by putting some hidden fields into that form, but since I don't want everybody to see all that configuration-stuff, I want a php-"wrapper" around it, that reads some variables from a conf-file.
Now, that's certainly a great idea.
But how do I get the data from the form to the php, and, mor important, further on to the cgi actually sending the SMS?
How do I pass the Parameters?

Need help urgently!
Please help me!

THX

Markus

ame12

Markus, you can easily construct a URL like this:

$strurl = "http://127.0.0.1/cgi/sms.pl?";
$strurl.= "arg1=".$arg1;
$strurl.= "&arg2=".$arg2;
// etc.
$fd = fopen($strurl, "r");
while (!feof($fd)) {
$buff .= fgets($fd, 4096);
}
fclose($fd);

something like this is pretty easy to get working.

Dave

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Anon

Well, actually, I managed to get the URL by the following:
$QSTRING = $QUERY_STRING;
while (list ($header, $value) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$QSTRING = $QSTRING.'&'.$header.'='.$value;
}

Quite a nice solution.

So I want to send this:
system("http://xxxxx/cgi/sms".'?'.$QSTRING);

And I also tried with virtual("blablabla").
Simply won't work.
With the system-call, I get back nothing.
With virtual()... I get the following message:
Warning: Unable to include 'Here.goes.the/url/cgi/sms' - request execution failed in 'the place where the php is/sendSMS.php'.

Any other help?

markus

Anon

Dave wrote:

Markus, you can easily construct a URL like this:

$strurl = \"http://127.0.0.1/cgi/sms.pl?\";
$strurl.= \"arg1=\".$arg1;
$strurl.= \"&arg2=\".$arg2;
// etc.
$fd = fopen($strurl, \"r\");
while (!feof($fd)) {
$buff .= fgets($fd, 4096);
}
fclose($fd);

something like this is pretty easy to get working.

Dave

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Anon

What worked for me was a combination of both approaches:

<?php

$QSTRING = "http://XXXXX.XXX/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?";

while (list ($header, $value) = each ($HTTP_GET_VARS))
{
$QSTRING = $QSTRING.'&'.$header.'='.$value;
}

while (list ($header, $value) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS))
{
$QSTRING = $QSTRING.'&'.$header.'='.$value;
}

readfile($QSTRING);