URL item to PHP

[Petyr David]

I would like to pass a URL parameter into a 1 line PHP script embedded
in my HTML

something like:

https://servername.bigco.com:9443/dev/searchit.html?search_dir=/var/data/monthly

Ideally the value of search_dir (/var/data/monthly) would be passed
to the php script

Something like this:

?>php

passthru("/var/www/cgi-bin/getdirnames.pl $search_dir");

?

Right now getdirnames.pl has a hard coded directory name. It does a
find, comes back with directory names and then formats the returned
strings as HTML checkbox tags. The passthru prints the perl script's
output to the HTML

I'd like to make the whole process dynamic

TX - hope that was clear

 

[-Lost]

I would like to pass a URL parameter into a 1 line PHP script embedded
in my HTML

The location object can help you in this regard (location.hash, location.search).

I'd like to make the whole process dynamic

XMLHttpRequest (aka Ajax, well actually, Ajax is based on the XMLHttpRequest object).

http://www.jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_44

TX - hope that was clear

Well, it was definitely clearer than why you are using PHP to call a Perl script from
JavaScript. But hey, I have done weirder shite.

-Lost