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

Sat Aug 24 19:15:34 EDT 2002

Thanks, Joseph! I'll give that a try.
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 18:33:00 -0400
>
>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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