RE: [PHP] Passing variables to a scripting engine... (like php)

...But a scripting engine can process A LOT of information (think about how much information can be sent with a HTML form in posted variables). Apache and IIS do not call PHP.EXE sending all posted variables inside command line arguments... So, how do THEY do it??? Thanks a lot for the patience... Cheers Diego. Michael Geier WROTE: you can pass the $ARGV array as command line parameters /script.php arg1 arg2 script.php #!/path/to/php -q <? if (count($argv) < 2) { die ('Please enter correct number of parameters'); } echo $argv[1] . " | " . $argv[2] . "\n"; ?> JOE STUMP WROTE: Yeah - like I said .... php foo.php -url http://www.mydomain.com/myfile.php in foo.php echo $argc; // should be 3 echo $argv[0]; // will be the filename echo $argv[1]; // will be -url echo $argv[2]; // will be the url --Joe -----Original Message----- From: Diego Fulgueira [mailto:dful@metahogar.com] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:45 PM To: Php-General Subject: [PHP] Passing variables to a scripting engine... (like php) Ok. I already posted a question asking how to pass parameters to php.exe when running it directly from the command prompt. However, i've noticed the matter is a bit more complex than i had thought. I will reformulate my question: How the h--- does any Web Server passes information like the URL being processed, posted variables, etc, etc, to a scripting engine??? I've noticed it is not through command line arguments... Could it be using enviroment variables...? The initial purpose of this was to schedule a script to be executed on a periodic basis... but know I am very curious!! Still, i will greatly appreciate workarounds. THANKS A LOT AGAIN. Cheers, Diego. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net