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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:22:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] How to integrate PHP with my homegrown server
From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings)

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.
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