[San-Diego-pm] Running PHP slide show from Perl
Joel Fentin
joel at fentin.com
Wed Oct 6 11:14:08 PDT 2010
On 10/6/2010 10:46 AM, Nicholas Wehr wrote:
> I'm thinking php doesn't run on the command line by default -
> what's your platform?
I don't know. My client is hosted by Blue Host
(http://www.bluehost.com/) and is probably on a shared server.
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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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