Passing POST args to PHP when run as a CGI (was Re: [PHP] $_ENV not working for me with PHP 4.2.0)

--- Curt Zirzow <php-general@zirzow.dyndns.org> wrote: > Technically it is 4.1.0 (where did you see the > 4.2.0?) but anything > prior to that you should use $HTTP_ENV_VARS my mistake, you're right, it was 4.1.0. > http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php > http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php > > A diff of your php.ini will tell the story I'll bet > a diff output > would be something like: > > 306c306 > > variables_order = "GPCS" > --- > < variables_order = "EGPCS" yes, you're correct, my php.ini uses 'variable_order = "GPCS"'. I tried changing this to "EGPCS", but $_ENV['USER']; would still not work. > To get the user that apache is really running as you > want to do > something like: > > print whoami; I've been playing around a bit more, and made a simple script: <?php echo getenv('USER'), "<br />"; print whoami . "<br />"; print $_ENV['USER']; ?> It produces the following output: john nobody (and an error is produced in the logfile for $_ENV['USER']: Undefined index: USER) Now, I'm running this PHP script from within a virtual host with a certain user/group (test/test - made possible by using suEXEC), so I can't understand why "getenv('USER');" is returning "john".. Anyway, I've been reading up on using suEXEC with PHP scripts, and it looks like the scripts have to be run as a .cgi in order to inherit the user/group of the virtual host.. I've tried changing around one of my PHP scripts so that it runs as a cgi (basically I just renamed the file to test.cgi and added #!/usr/local/bin/php to the beginning of the script). The only problem is that now my $_POST['TEST']; doesn't work within the script, so my new problem is how to figure out passing variables from one script to another when using PHP as a .cgi. Am I doing something wrong, or does something need to be changed in order for PHP to be able to receive these POST variables? If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks in advance, John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com