Hi, I'm trying to call a Perl CGI script from PHP. I use the system or exec commands. That works fine. I've basically got that sorted out.
As a test, i ran a CGI script which returns all the environment variables that the script can see. When I run it from the command line, I get one set which are MY environment variables. That's fine. I expect that. If I run the CGI as a web process ie http:/server/xxxx.cgi, then I get a set of environment variables which reflect the web server environment. Eg. the Path, REMOTE-USER etc. Cool. But if I run the CGI via PHP, I get another completely different set of variables. These seem to reflect the environment that the server is running in, not anything to do with the Apache server varaiables that are neccessary for web pages. Can anyone explain to me what's going on? Why does PHP appear to destroy the variables of the CGI environment? Can I make sure that when PHP calls the CGI Perl script, that the Perl script has access to all the appropriate environment variables. The Perl script in question accesses these environment variables because it is a CGI script in and of itself.. Because my work environment is mixed Perl and PHP, It wuld be great to be able to integrate them a bit so that we can use Perl generated HTML inserted into a PHP page when appropriate. Any insights much appreciated. Thanks, Norman Cates -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
