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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:53:51 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] How to integrate PHP with my homegrown server
From: buildsmart@daleenterprise.com (BuildSmart)

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On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:22:14, Robert Cummings wrote:

> 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.

Would it not be easier to build php as a cgid?

You can look at the source in lighttpd, it shows an simple method to  
interface with the php cgid which I think you could incorporate into  
your java server (unless your java server is all script based then it  
might take a little more work).

>
> Cheers,
> Rob.

- -- BuildSmart

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