Zoom and ssi

[AndrewD]

Your site clearly explains how to use server side includes. A minor problem with the suggested php/apache approach, using the *virtual* command, is that it is not possible to catch the output from *virtual* - it goes straight to the browser.

Do you have any idea whether the IIS solution you suggest, using shell_exec, will also work with apache - I know I could just test it, but thought it best to ask first.

Thanks

[Ray]

I haven't tried it myself, but I believe it should be possible. You would need to use the exec() function.

There's a couple of user posted methods on the PHP webpage for virtual() as well, which supposedly does what you're after. Here's one such example:

[FONT=Courier New]// preparing the arguments passed to this PHP page [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]$QSTRING = $QUERY_STRING; [/FONT]
 
[FONT=Courier New]// pay attention to the maximum length of the QUERY string. [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]while (list ($header, $value) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)){ [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]if (empty($QSTRING)) [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New] $QSTRING = $header.'='.$value; [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]else [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New] $QSTRING = $QSTRING.'&'.$header.'='.$value; [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]} [/FONT]
 
[FONT=Courier New]putenv('REQUEST_METHOD=GET'); [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]putenv('QUERY_STRING='.$QSTRING); [/FONT]
 
[FONT=Courier New]unset($return_array); [/FONT]
[FONT=Courier New]exec('my_CGI', $return_array, $return_val); [/FONT]

Replace 'my_CGI' with the search.cgi from Zoom. You may need to specify an absolute path here such as "/htdocs/www/cgi-bin/search.cgi" or "C:\\Progra~1\\Apache~1\\Apache2\\cgi-bin\\search.cgi".

Hope that helps!

[AndrewD]

Another approach to SSI + PHP

Another approach that works well is to use the cURL library built into php to fetch the zoom cgi page from the current server on http://127.0.0.1

$dozoom   = "http://127.0.0.1/path to zoom/search.cgi";

$doquery  =  "zoom_query=" . $zoom_query;
$doquery .= "&zoom_page=" . $zoom_page;
$doquery .= "&zoom_per_page=" . $zoom_per_page;
$doquery .= "&zoom_cat%5B%5D=" . $zoom_cat;
$doquery .= "&zoom_and=" . $zoom_and;
$doquery .= "&zoom_sort=" . $zoom_sort;

$ch = @curl_init();
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $dozoom);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $doquery);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, false);
$search = @curl_exec($ch);
$error = @curl_error($ch);
@curl_close($ch);