How to integrate PHP with my homegrown server View as Markdown

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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You could take a look at implementing PHP support via CGI.

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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.

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Daniel Brown wrote:

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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?
-- Steve

Steve,

You'd need to transpose the $_GET variables from the request to

$argv variables via the CLI. I don't know exactly how Java would
handle it, but the PHP equivalent (though rather recursive and
unnecessary, it's just here for demonstration purposes) would be:

Thanks Daniel, I can certainly do that in Java without much trouble,
however I was hoping to avoid needing to do things in each php file to
convert argv into $_GET. I want to be able to serve standard PHP
without modifying each one.

But you made me realize there is a way. I wrote a small "pre.php" file
like this:
<?php
#
for($i=1;$i<count($argv);$i++) {
$variables = split("=",$argv[$i]);
$_GET[$variables[0]] = $variables[1];
}
?>

and in my php.ini, I set this:
auto_prepend_file =e:\php523\pre.php

Now it works fine without having to modify the php code! All I need to
do is have the Java code set up the html parms as argv, and I'm done.
-- Steve