invoking php?

[Bush is a Fascist]

Hi all,

Nobody in the php forum seems to know how to invoke
php properly from C, so I must ask here.

I am doing is the following, which seems to be by the book,
but then again I am finding very few explanations
on the subject.

setenv ("REQUEST_METHOD", "GET", !0);
setenv ("QUERY_STRING", "abc=123", !0);
system "/usr/local/bin/php myfile.php < dummyfile > foo";

Dummyfile can be empty or have data in it, yet
I keep getting an error:

"No input file specified."

Anybody know what's going on?

Thanks.
333

 

[SM Ryan]

# Hi all,
#
# Nobody in the php forum seems to know how to invoke
# php properly from C, so I must ask here.

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/print/features.commandline.php

 

[CBFalconer]

Nobody in the php forum seems to know how to invoke
php properly from C, so I must ask here.

On the contrary, you must NOT ask known off-topic questions here.

 

[Bush is a Fascist]

On the contrary, you must NOT ask known off-topic questions here.

Who lit your tampon? Go be prissy somewhere else.

 

[Sensei]

Who lit your tampon? Go be prissy somewhere else.

He is *totally* right:

setenv ("REQUEST_METHOD", "GET", !0);
setenv ("QUERY_STRING", "abc=123", !0);
system "/usr/local/bin/php myfile.php < dummyfile > foo";
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The line is NOT written in C, and the others can be written in another
language as well.

You'd better stick with PHP related newsgroups.

 

[Red]

On the contrary, you must NOT ask known off-topic questions here.

People who post orders like that make me want to post OT material here
just to piss them off.

 

[CBFalconer]

(e-mail address removed) says...

People who post orders like that make me want to post OT material
here just to piss them off.

PLONK. Enjoy.

 

[Chris Croughton]

People who post orders like that make me want to post OT material here
just to piss them off.

Me too. What is the airspeed of an unladen sparrow?

Chris C

 

[SM Ryan]

# On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:42:47 -0400, Red
#
# > In article <[email protected]>, (e-mail address removed) says...
# >> Bush is a Fascist wrote:
# >> >
# >> > Nobody in the php forum seems to know how to invoke
# >> > php properly from C, so I must ask here.
# >>
# >> On the contrary, you must NOT ask known off-topic questions here.
# >
# > People who post orders like that make me want to post OT material here
# > just to piss them off.
#
# Me too. What is the airspeed of an unladen sparrow?

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/information/flight.htm

17 to 24 mph.

 

[Default User]

People who post orders like that make me want to post OT material
here just to piss them off.

*plonk*




Brian

 

[Alan Balmer]

Who lit your tampon? Go be prissy somewhere else.

You're just trying to butter up Chuck with your pen name.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Me too. What is the airspeed of an unladen sparrow?

This topic came up last year. You've repeated (deliberately?) the
error made back then; the original question was about an unladen
*swallow*.

The answer is about 60 to 66 kilofurlongs per fortnight.

CBFalconer's original answer of 27 kilofurlongs per fortnight may have
been about right for sparrows.

 

[Chris Croughton]

# On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:42:47 -0400, Red
#
# > In article <[email protected]>, (e-mail address removed) says...
# >> Bush is a Fascist wrote:
# >> >
# >> > Nobody in the php forum seems to know how to invoke
# >> > php properly from C, so I must ask here.
# >>
# >> On the contrary, you must NOT ask known off-topic questions here.
# >
# > People who post orders like that make me want to post OT material here
# > just to piss them off.
#
# Me too. What is the airspeed of an unladen sparrow?

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/information/flight.htm

17 to 24 mph.

Interesting, that's the answer I got (for a house-sparrow,
hedge-sparrows are smaller which may make a difference). I measured it
in a car chasing the bird down a lane...

(The answer should, of course, have been a question about what sort of
sparrow I meant, at which point I would vanish in a puff of smoke...)

Chris C

 

[Chris Croughton]

This topic came up last year. You've repeated (deliberately?) the
error made back then; the original question was about an unladen
*swallow*.

I do know the original, very well, my question was about a different
bird (it seems that my measurements of "20 MPH give or take a bit" were
correct according to the posted link).

The answer is about 60 to 66 kilofurlongs per fortnight.

African or European?

CBFalconer's original answer of 27 kilofurlongs per fortnight may have
been about right for sparrows.

No, it's much too slow. They are slower than swallows on average, but
they still achieve around 45 to 60 kilofurlongs/fortnight (a unit with
which I am more familiar as furlongs per millifortnight)...

Chris C

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Who lit your tampon? Go be prissy somewhere else.

Rotate upon it, idiot.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

No, it's much too slow. They are slower than swallows on average, but
they still achieve around 45 to 60 kilofurlongs/fortnight (a unit with
which I am more familiar as furlongs per millifortnight)...

I'm sorry, this sketch has become far too silly. I demand that you
perform the Fish Dance at once.

 

[Default User]

Rotate upon it, idiot.

Mark, I'd ask you not get into name-calling matches with people that
many of us kill-filed long ago.




Brian

 

[Chris Croughton]

I'm sorry, this sketch has become far too silly. I demand that you
perform the Fish Dance at once.

Albatross!

(The speed of light is 1 foot per nanosecond, as a first approximation.
Far more useful than the more accurate 186282.4 miles per second...)

What's the silly unit managers like to use to measure programming
productivity? Lines of code per man-week or something?

Chris C

 

[Steve Summit]

setenv ("REQUEST_METHOD", "GET", !0);
setenv ("QUERY_STRING", "abc=123", !0);

Gad, that's clumsy! I hate stuffing parameters through the
environment like that! (Not your fault, of course. It's bad
enough from the shell -- see below -- but somehow it seems even
worse in C, with those explicit setenv calls.)

I'd recommend replacing those "!0" thingies with "1" or "TRUE",
though -- rederiving the value of "true" on-the-fly in this way
strikes me as obfuscatory.

system "/usr/local/bin/php myfile.php < dummyfile > foo";

I assume you mean

system("/usr/local/bin/php myfile.php < dummyfile > foo");

(But if not, that may be your problem right there.)

I suspect you'll eventually want to stuff the input into php by
invoking it with popen(), not system().

Dummyfile can be empty or have data in it, yet
I keep getting an error: "No input file specified."
Anybody know what's going on?

No, not yet. What happens if you bypass C entirely and invoke

REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING=abc=123 /usr/local/bin/php myfile.php < dummyfile

directly from the shell command line?

Steve Summit
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Richard Bos]

I'm sorry, this sketch has become far too silly. I demand that you
perform the Fish Dance at once.

That's the Fish _Slapping_ Dance, you snotty-faced heap of parrot
droppings!

Oh, I'm sorry, this isn't comp.lang.abuse.

Richard