[San-Diego-pm] Running PHP slide show from Perl

Nicholas Wehr pm at bionikchickens.com
Wed Oct 6 10:46:38 PDT 2010


I'm thinking php doesn't run on the command line by default - what's your
platform?

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com> wrote:

> On 10/6/2010 10:17 AM, Nicholas Wehr wrote:
> > any time I need to change directories for whatever reason - I've
> > found that it's best practice to:
> >
> > use strict;
> > use File::Basename;
> > use File::Spec::Functions;
> > use FindBin;
> >
> > also, keep in mind - you didn't check the return value from your
> > chdir. I think you'd be better off with absolute paths if you
> > could swing it. you also should assume your environment is blanked
> > out, so your cgi will not have the environment that apache does,
> > per se. with your system call, use absolute paths for the php
> > program as well. AND make sure you can run php from the shell. eg.
> > system(/usr/bin/php /path/to/file/plant1.php')
> >
>
> Thank you.
>
> Does the above assume the program was not found?
>
> The error messages (two) both refer to code inside plant1.php.
>
> A more fundamental question: Can you run php from system()?
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com
> > <mailto:joel at fentin.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I have been attempting to test/run a slideshow program. The
> >     program must be run from a Perl program.
> >
> >     + First note that plant1.php works. See it here:
> >     http://calscape.com/Raja99/plant1.php
> >
> >     + I wrote a Perl script to run plant1.php. You can run it at:
> >     http://www.calscape.com/cgi-bin/Admin/Raja99A.pl.
> >     It doesn't work. Note the error message.
> >
> >     + The operative code lines:
> >     print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> >     chdir '../../Raja99/';
> >     system('./plant1.php');
> >
> >
> >     I hope sombody knows what is happening and can help.
> >     Thank you.
> >
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>
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