Re: [PHP3] Apache modules, PHP & stdin

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Couldn't you just eval() the data returned by apache_note()? > > You seem to be under the impression that the module version of PHP parses > data on stdin and if you could just get your data onto stdin your problems > would be solved. This is not the case at all. Apache passes PHP a > filename which PHP then opens and parses. There is absolutely no > provision to parse data on stdin in the module version. > > To escape the eval() solution, you'd need to hack up mod_php3.c and do > some magic there. Note that apache_php3_module_main() is expecting a file > descriptor which it then does an fdopen() on and feeds that to the parser. I have read a great deal of PHP code. I had (almost) concluded that it demands a file, but I wanted to be sure I hadn't missed some nice solution to the problem. Yes, I could (probably) do eval() on the data. Yes, I could rewrite mod_php3.c. I just thought it would be possible to use php3 in the same way as when it is run on command line. I'll have a look at the two methods you describe and see what I can make out of it. Thank you! /Mikael