note 42751 added to function.exec

A question was asked about send information round trip through a perl script from a php script. This is the answer I came up with. I thought I would post this because there is not enough examples for exec() and passthru() and how to use them. In your perl script: Code: #!E:\xampp\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print 'hello world from outside the cgi-bin'; $ARGV[0] = $ARGV[0].' has been to perl land'; print '<br>'.$ARGV[0]; // these are variables created from arguements print '<br>'.$ARGV[1]; // fill them and play with them and get them print '<br>'.$ARGV[2]; // ready to send back to the PHP script In your php: Code: <?php $myVar = ""; $file="hey.cgi text1 text2 text3";// add arguements to be used as variables ob_start(); exec($file,$myVar); ob_end_clean (); print "the return variable content is: <b>"; foreach ($myVar as $value) { echo "<br>$value\n"; // remember those arguements above? They come back here! } print "</b>"; ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+42751 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+42751&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+42751&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php