fpassthru doesn't include the code in your php code. In just dumps the file
to output as it runs. Anything defined in PHP (inluding variables and
functions) in the file passed through will not be available to the calling
program. You need include();
Tim Ward
Senior Systems Engineer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Puchalsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 11 February 2001 05:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] passthru environment variables
>
>
> I'm trying to use passthru in a PHP program to have an
> external program
> display some data. The problem is that I was trying to have
> the external
> program's environment pick up the form field variables
> automatically passed
> into the PHP program as shell environment variables.
>
> In other words, if a user typed "Smith" into the last_name
> field in a form,
> the PHP program called by that form starts out with
> $last_name = "Smith",
> and I would like the external program called by passthru
> within the PHP
> program to have a shell environment variable last_name = "Smith".
>
> Does anyone know an easy way to do this?
>
>
>
>
>
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