[TriLUG] HOW do you get PHP TO PARSE in PERL script?

Sat Aug 24 12:49:01 EDT 2002

Hello, Joseph:

Thank you for offering to help me with this. Frankly, I feel lost when 
trying to use this specialized knowledge you have about CGI and PHP.

Here's what I set out to accomplish:

I have embedded in an HTML code (webpage) this PHP script that will echo the 
respective email address of a member when a condition is met. You can view 
the code here in the VIEW SOURCE: http://careere.com/members/noah/email.html

The variable on demand here is the: $username = ~username~;

The PHP script runs fine when not handled thru the CGI script of my database 
software: As you can see here: http://careere.com/email.html

What I need is to get the PHP to parse in this URL: 
http://careere.com/members/noah/email.html  Is something I need to embed in 
the <head></head> of the webpage to make this parse?

I am hosted on a Linux server with PHP4 and MySQL facilities.

Thank you greatly for your help!
Reggie

>From: Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider.com>
>Reply-To: trilug at trilug.org
>To: trilug at trilug.org
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] HOW do you get PHP TO PARSE in PERL script?
>Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:13:08 -0400
>
>You don't.  You put it in the perl script.
>
>Let me see if I understand you correctly.
>
>You want to get the output of a php script to use in your perl script 
>right?  Do you care about the output of the php script?  If not, then just 
>execute it as
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
>`php your_php_script.php`;
>
>
>If you want the output to be read back in, you have to use something like:
>
>open PHPSCRIPT, "/usr/bin/php your_php_script.php|";
># 'which php' to see where your command line php interpreter is
>
>Then you can parse the output from php like you would any open file.
>
>If you need to pass variables into the php script, I'm afraid you're out of 
>luck.  It really shouldn't be that difficult to port your PHP script to 
>Perl though, unless it's thousands of lines.  Even a couple hundred lines 
>should be doable in a couple of hours.
>
>Let me know more about what system you're doing this on and what you're 
>trying to accomplish and I can help you better.
>
>Joseph
>
>Reginald Tchume wrote:
>>Thanks, Joseph. I am very new at this as I am not a programmer. So, how 
>>would that commandline version of the PHP read or look like? And where do 
>>I insert it in the PHP script?
>>
>>
>>>From: Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider.com>
>>>Reply-To: trilug at trilug.org
>>>To: trilug at trilug.org
>>>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] HOW do you get PHP TO PARSE in PERL script?
>>>Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:42:05 -0400
>>>
>>>Don't.  Use PHP to parse the php script.
>>>
>>>`php script`
>>>
>>>Launch the commandline version of php from within your php script and 
>>>parse the output from that into perl.
>>>
>>>Joseph
>>>
>>>Reginald Tchume wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know how to get a PERL script to parse a PHP code?
>>>>
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