Re: How to integrate PHP with my homegrown server

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 11:08 -0400, Steve Francisco wrote: > Hi, as an experiment I have a simple Java based server that listens on > port 80 and can serve files just fine. I'd like to extend it to support > PHP but am looking for guidance on how to do that. Can someone point me > to instructions? > > My first attempt was to just call the php.exe command line interface to > launch the php interpreter, capture the html and send it back to the > caller. That works well, but I can't seem to figure out how to deal > with parameters. For example, if the url would be this on the server: > > http://some.server.com/mypage.php?parm1=Hello&parm2=Goodbye > and in mypage.php I do something like this: > $echo $_GET["parm1"]; > then how do I test this via the PHP command line? > > If the command line doesn't have a way to cause $_GET to be populated, > then what other way of invoking PHP could I use? Sounds like you might need some glue. Have your PHP script run a function that synchs up the globals with what you want. So your Java server could populate a file or something with the appropriate data that it received and your glue function would read it and populate the global arrays. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................