Is there an easy way to include these things?

CGI is just a standard interfacing protocol for executables usually run from a web server.

Many web servers, including Apache support server side includes (or SSI) The typical format is something like:

<!--#command arg1="value1 arg2="value2 ... -->

And an example from apache.org (v1.3):

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counter.pl" -->

If you're trying to execute a program from within a PHP script (just guessing since we're in the php forum) then you'll want to use a function such as system() or exec().

Yes the file is php, so I should use system() or exec()? How do I use these? Do I just stick the file path inside?


Thanks,

Nathan-d

If you want the program to output directly to the page, use system: http://us.php.net/system

If you need to capture the contents, use exec or the backtick operator:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
http://us.php.net/manual/en/language....execution.php

Unfortunately I can't get this to work. Any other idea's? I've tried both the system("file.php") and passthru("file.php") functions and nothing gets displayed on the page :-(

What I really need is for the file to be executed and then the contents dumped out on the screen. Has anyone successfully done this? Can you post working code?

Thanks.

Oh, it's just another PHP script you're trying to run? How about just include("file.php") ?

Ok, I'm sorry I've been so confusing with my posts.

I need to include PHP, CGI and INC files. The php files try to send header information, that's why I can NOT use the include() function, it generates an error about header information being sent because the header for this page has already been sent.

I also need to include PHP and CGI files.

I still haven't gotten this to work, thanks.

Nathand, if you're worried about header information already being sent, you can use an output buffer to control when and where the headers are sent to the browser.

Do you have control over the PHP files that are being included? Why not just remove the header information from them. Also, what kind of CGI files are you trying to include?

PHP's Output Control Functions

While the php files are on the server, I don't have permission to edit them. Is there any way to just have them execute as a separate page and then echo the contents?

There are several different CGI files being included, they all look like this "/cgi-bin/vote/vcenter-ssi.cgi".

I suppose you could try this to execute them as a separate page and just grab the contents.

PHP Code:

if( function_exists( 'curl_init' ) ) {
            
                // Start the cURL session
                $session = curl_init( $address_of_page );
                
                // Set some cURL options
                curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
                curl_setopt( $session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
                
                // Execute the cURL request
                // The contents of the page are now stored in $response
                $response = curl_exec( $session );
                
                // Close the cURL connection
                curl_close( $session );
            
            }