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

Sat Aug 24 18:33:00 EDT 2002

Ok, PHP is processed server side.  What this means is that the code is 
processed (i.e. parsed and executed) on the server.  If you want to run 
PHP serverside, you have to do two things:

First is enclose PHP code in <?PHP ?> blocks, for example

<?PHP
	echo "Hello World!";
?>

The second thing you have to do is tell your web server to process the 
files (usually something.php or something.phtml).  In apache it's done 
by adding lines to httpd.conf as follows:

         AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 .phtml
         AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Once you have that done, rename email.html to email.php, and load it up 
in your web browser.  Then you should be good to go.

Reginald Tchume wrote:
> 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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