I’ve tried everything I can think of to get to call a CGI script from my PHP script.

exec() works, however I couldn’t figure out how to pass argumnts to the cgi script!

I found a blog post @ dotnetfish that provides sample code that works right out of the box!

Here’s an excerpt

/* sample for calling cgi */

$host = 'www.xincube.com';

$path = '/scripts/handler/API.cgi';

$data_to_send = 'action=GetSupportedData';

PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send);

/* function that will call cgi */

function PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send) {

$header = "not yet";

$content = '';

$fp = fsockopen($host,80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

if (!$fp) {

echo "$errstr ($errno)\n";

}

else {

fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n");

fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");

fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");

fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($data_to_send)."\n");

fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");

fputs($fp, $data_to_send);

while(!feof($fp)) {

//echo fgets($fp, 4000);

$line = fgets( $fp, 4000 );

if( $line == "\r\n" && $header == "not yet" ) {

$header = "passed";

}

if( $header == "passed" ) {

$content .= $line;

}

}

echo $content;

fclose($fp);

}

}

Tags: IO, php, script