Re: Posting variables to a cgi without a form
| From: | _lallous | Date: | Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:23:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Posting variables to a cgi without a form | ||
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$content = join('',
file("http://www.somehost.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?param1=value1¶m2=value"
));
now $content have the output, feel free to parse it out!
"Joseph Blythe" <joe.blythe@binarylogic.com.au> wrote in message
news:NFBBINOGELMOJAGFEJNCOEAGCFAA.joe.blythe@binarylogic.com.au...
> Hey all,
>
> What is the best wat to post some variables to a cgi file and capture the
> output so I may strip out all the html tags, I want to replace a forms
> action with a php script which will mimic a forms post method, allowing me
> to better format the response, as at the moment the cgi is written in c
and
> creates a whole html page which i need to strip back down to text before I
> can include it in my site.
>
> I know about the string and filesysytem functions, sort of looking for a
> quick example of passing the variables to the cgi and capturing the
output.
>
> Any help much appreciated,
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Joseph
>
>