note 10153 added to Predefined variables
| From: | jasonm at netfirms dot com | Date: | Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:57:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 10153 added to Predefined variables | ||
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The $HTTP_POST_VARS environment comes in handy when trying to pass variables to an embedded Perl
Script. Passing variables to an embedded Perl Script via GET / $QUERY_STRING is not the greatest as
IE4/5 seems to truncate URLS longer than 2048 characters .. and passing massive amounts of data
through the URL is kind of messy.
The $HTTP_POST_VARS is not a string like $QUERY_STRING, it is an associative array .. therefore you
must convert its contents to a sting. Heres a quick method of doing so:
while(list($key, $val) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$key = stripslashes($key);
$val = stripslashes($val);
$key = urlencode($key);
$val = urlencode($val);
$postString .= "$key=$val&";
}
virtual("cgi-bin/perl.pl?$postString");
http://www.php.net/manual/language.variables.predefined.php