Re: Re: question about forwarding variables to php from perl

[Roger]

Hi Nathan,

What are the variables that you want to pass to PHP anyway? It will be quite easy to setup the CGI variables once you know what are the names and contents of the variables to be passed to the PHP script.

I suspect that your PHP script might expect variables such as below:

my %vars = (
  from => $From_address,
  # assume multiple addressed are separated by comma
  to => join(',', @To_addresses), 
  cc => join(',', @Cc_addresses), 
  subject => $Subject,
  body => $Mail_body,
  # etc.
);

# and then invoke the PHP script via POST

# send the POST to php
my $url = "http://domain.com/test.php";
my $req = new HTTP::Request;
my $res = $us->post($url, \%vars);

You might want to check the return result $res to see if the mail has been processed properly by the PHP script.

[nathan0601]

Hi, The goal of what I am doing is simply to create a list serv app using php. So the php script needs to receive vars (everything that would have been in the email sent to the perl script, parsed into vars) The above posts are helpful. I will play with the script later after class. Thanks for your help.

[nathan0601]

OK, we are making progress. I have perl and php talking now.

How can I pass vars without a form action? Say I have the vars working if I use a submit button (I suppose they are 'hidden' vars.

Now I want the perl script to perform a redirect sort of function, bringing the vars to the php script without any interactive user action needed- In other words I want to run blah.cgi and have it pass any values defined in blah.cgi to blah.php.

Thanks for your patience and time with me. Nathan