Re: What's more common: CGI or module installation?

On 31 Jul, Murph wrote: >> At the least,l you should be able to call it as you would any cgi - >> something like >> >> http://your.host/path/to/php/path/to/test.htm >> >> Depending on the server and the cooperative nature of the ISP, it may >> also be possible to add .htaccess file(s) to your web structure to allow >> selected, or all, files to be parsed by the php cgi. > --- > > > That's reasonable enough and I've had some email from Bruce Christensen that > shows exactly how my host should configure their system. I shot them a copy > of his message and they're obviously mulling it over. They usually get back > to me within 30 minutes even late in the evening on a Sunday. They're pretty > good and I like the folks at Hostway.com. With Bruce's message, though, it's > been over a few hours and still nothing. I suppose I'll have to wait until > the morning when their crack staff get in before I hear back on something > this technical. > > ANYWAY... > > If I can call PHP as any other CGI script, I think I'm stumped as to how to > do something like this: > > <!-- http://www.murphatnight.com/test.html --> > <HTML> > <BODY > onLoad="http://murphatnight.com/hello.php3"> > (hello.php3 echoes "Hello, World!" back into test.html) > </BODY> > </HTML> > > Is that a newbie question? I dunno. I *am* fairly new to this but I've > crawled all over all kinds of books, docs, and manuals and haven't found the > answer. I thought fopen() was the answer but it doesn't quite give the > effect I'm looking for. Nonononono! That's not going to work. Lets take the simplest example possible. Create a file called whatever - info.php - and stick it in your server root. In it put 1 line: phpinfo() Now open that via http://your.server.name/path/to/php/info.php and you should get back a comprehensive listing of information about php's configuration. What you are doing there is calling the php cgi and passing it the value of a file to parse and return the results to your browser. > I own (and read) "Professional PHP Programming" from Wrox and have scoured > the online PHP manual to no avail. I have this mailing list going and have > done the search engine thing with AltaVista. I don't mind buying and reading > books but which ones? > > This one, simple problem is killing me and keeping me up all hours of the > night. My work is suffering and my girlfriend can't remember my name so I > had to buy a nametag. > > Am I going down a dead-end or should I keep plugging away looking through > more stuff to find what I'm looking for? Got any pointers? > Cheers -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA