I want to execute python script with post data and get result from there using curl in php. If anyone have done this kind of functionality then please help. I have searched a lot but didn't get anything.
This is my python script path
cgi-bin/interactive.py
And i want to pass title=abc as post data.
I have done it with shell_exec in php file,
$command = escapeshellcmd('cgi-bin/interactive.py test');
$output = shell_exec($command);
echo $output;
But in this i am facing issue with sys.argv to fetch argument in python file.
Is it possible to pass argument with key=value with shell_exec? If yes then it can solve my problem otherwise i need to call with curl post data.
Thanks in advance!
To do advanced parsing of shell arguments you can use getopt or argparse modules. They are highly configurable and flexible.
Passing post data via shell arguments is, however, not proper as per the CGI spec (if this is supposed to be a true CGI application). Post data comes from stdin in CGI, so in your Python program you can read in the HTTP response like regular user input, and then parse out the POST data. See this thread for more info.
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I'm trying to execute a piece of php code with the php command in the ubuntu terminal. I'm testing it with a sample code that you can find here.
I created a file with the code, calling it welcome.php, and tried executing it with:
php welcome.php
And obviously says there are undefined indexes, because it expects arguments via POST
Obviously I would like to do is to run it with the POST arguments as well. I tried the following:
declare -A _POST
_POST[name]="Sample name"
_POST[email]="sample#mail.com"
Before executing again, but the result still doesn't show. So is there any way I can declare the POST arguments manually in order to achieve loading the html file properly?
----------------- Context, in case it seems relevant -----------------
I'm programming a modest C server for my studies, and among the functionality required, there is executing php scripts. So my idea is to execute whatever command is required and generate the html output in a file that is later read and transmitted. Parsing the arguments as keys and values is not a problem (although yet to be done).
So far I know, you need to create a post request to a server to get the $_POST variable's values. In case you want to generate an HTML file, you can pass values through the argument, process it and return (print) an HTML document.
I am a newbie in PHP. I am making a call to an http api using wget (the hosting site doesn't offer http_get). The call returns an xml set when do it manually. But it appears that my wget call is putting the response into an array.
I am unable to access the array and not sure where to go from here.
Below is my code. FYI -- The first 4 elements of the xml play_by_play object are: id, visitor, home, status.
<?php
exec('wget http://api.sportsdatallc.org/mlb-t3/pbp/99a0f209-2c69-49a4-99f9-8aebdf55b6e9.xml?api_key=API_KEY', $array);
//print_r(array_values($array));
echo $array["play_by_play"][0]->id;
?>
I appreciate any assistance with this!
Thanks
When you use exec(), the 2nd parameter ($array) will be filled with each line of the output. That's not what you want. That's why you can't access your values, it's just an aray of strings, not a parsed XML file.
I suggest you use shell_exec() instead.
$xml = shell_exec('wget http://your.xml.file');
Then you can use an XML parser on $xml.
I don't know why you're using exec here when PHP has file downloading built-in. http_get() is not a part of the PHP core, that's why your hosting doesn't offer it. If they let you use exec(), then I'll assume they'll let you use the built-in file_get_contents().
$xml = file_get_contents('http://your.xml.file');
My problem is I need to fetch FOOBAR2000's title because that including information of playing file, so I create a execute file via Win32 API(GetWindowText(), EnumWindows()) and it's working good.
TCHAR SearchText[MAX_LOADSTRING] = _T("foobar2000");
BOOL CALLBACK WorkerProc(HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{
TCHAR buffer[MAX_TITLESTRING];
GetWindowText(hwnd, buffer, MAX_TITLESTRING);
if(_tcsstr(buffer, SearchText))
{
// find it output something
}
return TRUE;
}
EnumWindows(WorkerProc, NULL);
Output would look like "album artis title .... [foobar2000 v1.1.5]"
I created a php file like test.php, and use exec() to execute it.
exec("foobar.exe");
then in console(cmd) I use command to execute it
php test.php
It's working good too, same output like before.
Now I use browser(firefox) to call this php file(test.php), strange things happened.
The output only foobar2000 v1.1.5, others information gone ...
I think maybe is exec() problem? priority or some limitation, so I use C# to create a COM Object and register it, and rewrite php code
$mydll = new COM("FOOBAR_COMObject.FOOBAR_Class");
echo $mydll->GetFooBarTitle();
still same result, command line OK, but browser Fail.
My question is
Why have 2 different output between command line and browser. I can't figure it out.
How can I get correct output via browser.
or there is a easy way to fetch FOOBAR2000's title?
Does anyone have experience on this problem?
== 2012/11/28 edited ==
follow Enno's opinion, I modify http_control plug-in to add filename info, original json info is "track title".
modify as following
state.cpp line 380 add 1 line
+pb_helper1 = pfc::string_filename(pb_item_ptr->get_path());
pb_helper1x = xml_friendly_string(pb_helper1);
# 1: when firefox opens the php and it gets executed, it the context depends on the user which runs the php-container (apache), this is quite different from the commandline call which gets executed in your context
# 2 and 3: there seems to be more than one way for getting the title: use the foobar-sdk and create a module which simply reads the current title per api, then write your result in an static-html-document inside your http-root-folder OR use the http-client inside the sdk, with it, you do not need a wabserver, even better use a already implemented module: for instance foo_upnp or foo-httpcontrol
Good luck!
If your webserver runs as a service, in windows you need to enable "allow desktop interaction" for the service. Your php script runs as a child of the webserver process when requested via browser.
I'm developing a little web server in C++, now I'm trying to implement PHP support for my WS, or better I'm trying to figure out how to implement that.
But I've got some doubts: for now I have the client's request in a std::string, if it's a static request there's no problem: let's find file and put in on socket buffer; if it's a dynamic request(PHP only for now), of course I will need to call the interpreter(std::system() ??).
Now my mainly doubt is about forms, I get my POST request and I save form fields in a string, but now: How can I fill $_POST used in my php script and call the interpreter? I could put my fields string as argv by "php -f file.php "fields string" but ,of course, it's awful.
To pass the POST body, you basically pipe it in
echo "$POST_BODY" | php-cgi
For C and C++ you don't want to use just popen(), but also capture the output and stderr. So you need something like: how to control popen stdin, stdout, stderr redirection?
I have a PHP script (news-generator.php) which, when I include it, grabs a bunch of news items and prints them. Right now, I'm using Python for my website (CGI). When I was using PHP, I used something like this on the "News" page:
<?php
print("<h1>News and Updates</h1>");
include("news-generator.php");
print("</body>");
?>
(I cut down the example for simplicity.)
Is there a way I could make Python execute the script (news-generator.php) and return the output which would work cross-platform? That way, I could do this:
page_html = "<h1>News and Updates</h1>"
news_script_output = php("news-generator.php") //should return a string
print page_html + news_script_output
import subprocess
def php(script_path):
p = subprocess.Popen(['php', script_path], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
result = p.communicate()[0]
return result
# YOUR CODE BELOW:
page_html = "<h1>News and Updates</h1>"
news_script_output = php("news-generator.php")
print page_html + news_script_output
PHP is a program. You can run any program with subprocess.
The hard part is simulating the whole CGI environment that PHP expects.
maybe off topic, but if you want to do this in a way where you can access the vars and such created by the php script (eg. array of news items), your best best will be to do the exec of the php script, but return a json encoded array of items from php as a string, then json decode them on the python side, and do your html generation and iteration there.
I think the best answer would be to have apache render both pages separately and then use javascript to load that page into a div. You have the slight slowdown of the ajax load but then you dont have to worry about it.
There is an open-source widget thing that will run multiple languages in 1 page but I cant remember what its called.
You could use urllib to get the page from the server (localhost) and execute it in the right environment for php. Not pretty, but it'll work. It may cause performance problems if you do it a lot.