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Converting Perl to PHP, testing CLI with $_POST (newbie) [message #172075] Sun, 30 January 2011 03:09 Go to previous message
P E Schoen is currently offline  P E Schoen
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I have made much progress converting my working Perl script to the
equivalent in PHP. Mostly I used the -l lint switch from the command line
interface on my localhost Apache server, and I was able to pass the syntax
check. Then I ran the script using a batch file with command line arguments
as CGI variables, but they do not seem to be read into the $_POST array. My
batch file is as follows:

C:\xampp\php\php-cgi eventprocessor.php --
Full_Name="MyName";Email="MyEmail"; ...

I am attempting to read the variables as

$in = $_POST ; // Get the CGI input variables
echo("Name: " . $_POST["Full_Name"] . "\n");
echo("Name: " . $in[Full_Name] . "\n");
echo("Name: " . $argv[2] . "\n");

This is essentially what I used for the Perl script and it works fine. The
last line above echoes the entire set of CGI variables (since there are no
spaces), and #argv[1] is just "--". I also used the command line
eventprocessor.php < CGIVARS.txt, but that did not work.

This did not seem to help:
http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.options.php

I should be able to use an HTML form and use POST to run the script, but
there should be a way directly from the CLI as there was for Perl.

So far I have found PHP much easier to use than Perl, so if I can get past
this hurdle I will be well on my way to make a determination as to what
language I will use for scripting.

Thanks,

Paul
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