Embedded CGI script using PHP passthru command

[iantresman]

For anyone else trying to embed CGI/Win32 version of search.cgi into a PHP script, and run it under Windows XP, the following may help (the PHP virtual() function is for Unix, and must be substituted for the passthru() which works in a different way):

<?php
    //Windows Usage
    $QSTRING = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
    putenv('REQUEST_METHOD=GET');
    putenv('QUERY_STRING='.$QSTRING);
    $command="C:\\dir\\directory\\another-subdiectory\\search.cgi";
    ob_start();
    passthru ($command);
    $results = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();
    echo $results;
?>

By default, the output in $results include the HTML header (Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8); I think there is an option to disable this under Advanced tab, "Disable charset enforcing on search script".

And I found there is no need to truncate the directory path to DOS 8.3 notation.

Regards,
Ian Tresman

[David]

Thanks for that. In addition, there is also an option, detailed in our FAQ, to use, shell_exec to call the CGI on Windows / IIS.