Well, i was searching for a while and Couldn't find any solution or workaround for accessing other php script.
I have a script that is running in CLI, u guessed its a socket server, and of course it have variables, objects, arrays, etc...
I need to debug this file without the need of printing/ echoing the variables from the script itself, I know you can do it but its kinda messy and for the long run you will end up increasing your file size just with commented and unwanted line of codes, that will took time to clean up later on. and plus I need to make a sort of a command line interface for that server in the future.
so my question is there any way to read or debug the script variables from another script running in another CLI instance? ( i can included it but it will be another instance with other values/variables)
in Addition, can I run a specific function from outside of that script? do I use reflections ?
I tried _SESSION but I cannot access it while the server is running.
In C# or Java you can.
I don't know if it's possible, but i would suggest other solution than "inspecting" variables in running script. I would use db to store logs about current operation and it's variables. It could be managed by config written in db to write all logs or only important ones, so You could easily disable log output just by changing one row in db.
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After asking this question, someone pointed on the right direction of not being able to execute a second script at all if one was already running.
I usually make apps which rely on the execution of AJAX calls to PHP pages, and today I found that trying to write on a file with fwrite() on a PHP script and trying to read that same file with fread() (to get progress feedback) on another AJAX call ended up in the second script only being executed when the first one had already finished.
Even trying to echo a simple "hello" (echo "hello"; exit;) would not show nothing on the page until the first script was finished.
So, I'm asking: is this a normal configuration? Is this the same on every installation of PHP by default? Is some configuration on php.ini that I can change?
Or it has to do with the server (in my case, Microsoft IIS 10)? Can someone shed some light on how to be able to execute multiple PHP scripts on different AJAX calls at once (or before the others finish)?
I know I'm not giving much information about the settings of my context, but I don't know neither where to look into.
Thank you everyone for your time and help!
As Luis said it could be a write-lock on the file that you're trying to modify. However another possibility if you're using sessions that use files (rather than a database), or a framework that uses file-based-sessions - then this behavior could also be a result of session-locking. My money would be on Luis' answer though - you should probably be using a database rather than a file unless you have a solid reason not to.
Hi is there anyway to store variable into memory until server restart or manually recreate the same variable using PHP.
Actually the problem is this I nee do have a router in my application which have several configuration to route the URLs on different APIs. I do not want to load my configuration each time a request lands so I am searching a way to keep the configuration data into memory until I manually recreate the same.
Please suggest if there is anyway to do this.
Thanks in Advanced.
PHP stores all variables in memory until the process exits (if the variable is a global) or until the scope ends (if the variable is local).
I think where you're getting confused is that Apache (or whatever webserver you're using) runs continuously, but it only starts PHP for every request, so PHP is never running continuously.
To store things across different requests, you'll need to use external persistence. You can do this with PHP sessions, a database, flat files, etc. but none of these will store the data in memory.
Even though it's external, you can use a caching server like memcached to store data in memory continuously, and then use PHP to access it through the Memcached class.
I'm considering the idea of a browser-based PHP IDE and am curious about the possibility of emulating the command line through the browser, but I'm not familiar enough with developing tools for the CLI to know if it's something that could be done easily or at all. I'd like to do some more investigation, but so far haven't been able to find very many resources on it.
From a high level, my first instinct is to set up a text input which would feed commands to a PHP script via AJAX and return any output onto the page. I'm just not familiar enough with the CLI to know how to interface with it in that context.
I don't need actual code, though that would be useful too, but I'm looking for more of which functions, classes or APIs I should investigate further. Ideally, I would prefer something baked into PHP (assume PHP 5.3) and not a third-party library. How would you tackle this? Are there any resources or projects I should know about?
Edit: The use case for this would be a localhost or development server, not a public facing site.
Call this function trough a RPC or a direct POST from javascript, which does things in this order:
Write the PHP code to a file (with a random name) in a folder (with a random name), where it will sit alone, execute, and then be deleted at the end of execution.
The current PHP process will not run the code in that file. Instead it has to have exec permissions (safe_mode off). exec('php -c /path/to/security_tight/php.ini') (see php -?)
Catch any ouput and send it back to the browser. You are protected from any weird errors. Instead of exec I recomment popen so you can kill the process and manually control the timeout of waiting for it to finish (in case you kill that process, you can easily send back an error to the browser);
You need lax/normal security (same as the entire IDE backend) for the normal PHP process which runs when called through the browser.
You need strict and paranoid security for the php.ini and php process which runs the temporary script (go ahead and even separate it on another machine which has no network/internet access and has its state reverted to factory every hour just to be sure).
Don't use eval(), it is not suitable for this scenario. An attacker can jump out into your application and use your current permissions and variables state against you.
The basic version would be
you scripts outputs a form with a line input
The form action points to your script
The script takes the input on the form and passes it to eval
pass any output from eval to the browser
output the form again
The problem is, that defined functions and variables are lost between each request.
Would you could to is to add each line that is entered to your session. Lets say
$inputline = $_GET['line'];
$_SESSION['script'] .= $inputline . PHP_EOL;
eval($_SESSION['script'];
by this, on each session a the full PHP script is executed (and of course you will get the full output).
Another option would be to create some kind of daemon (basically an instance of a php -a call) that runs on the server in the background and gets your input from the browser and passes the output.
You could connect this daemon to two FIFO devices (one for the input and one for the output) and communicate via simple fopen.
For each user that is using your script, a new daemon process has to be spawned.
Needless to say, that it is important to secure your script against abuse.
Recently I read about a PHP interpreter written in Javascript php.js, so you could write and execute PHP code using your browser only. I'm not sure if this is what you need in the end but it sounds interesting.
We've tested some products at my university for ssh-accessing our lab servers and used some of the Web-SSH-Tools - they basically do exactly what you want. The Shell-In-A-Box-Project may be bound to any interpreter you like and may be used with an interactive php-interpreter, if desired (on the demo-page, they used a basic-interpreter). The project may serve as a basis for a true PHP-IDE. These have the advantage of being capable of interacting with any console-based editor as well (e.g. vi, emacs or nano), as well as being able to give administrative commands (e.g. creating folders, changing ownerships or ACLs or rebooting a service).
Mozilla also has a full-featured webbased IDE called Bespin, which is also highly extensible and configurable.
As you stated, that the page is not for the public, you of course have to protect the page with Authentication and SSL to combat session hijacking.
I want to run a php script from the command line that is always running and constantly updating a variable.
I then want any php script that is run in the meantime (probably but not necessarily from the web) to be able to read that variable at any time.
Anyone know how I can do this?
Thanks.
Here, you want some kind of inter-process communication mecanism.
You cannot use a PHP variable for that : these are local to the script they're in.
Which means you'll have to use some "external" tool to store your data, like, to only speak of a few :
a file
a database (SQLite, MySQL, ...)
some shared-memory segment
In each case, you'll have :
One script that write to the data-storage space -- i.e. your first always running script
One or many other scripts that will read from the data-store
You should write the variable to a file with the CLI script and read from that with the other script.
Be sure to use flock to prevent race conditions.
You can write a php socket based server script, which will listen on desired port. Find article here.
Then your client php script can connect to it either locally or from the web and retrieve any data, including variables.
You can use any simple protocol designed by you or well known like XML to transfer variables.
Lots of idea's:
At set intervals it appends/writes to a file.
You use sqlite and write your data to it.
Your use a small memcached service as your intermediary.
You go somewhat crazy and write a socket class, listen on a set port, then make non-blocking calls to check.
1-2 are probably the simplest
3 would work great if you need to query the value a lot
4 would be fun, but might not be worth the effort.
I'm using some PHP scripts from FeedForAll to join together RSS feeds (RSSmesh) and display them as HTML (RSS2HTML).
Because I intend to run these scripts fairly intensively and don't want the resulting HTTP requests and bandwidth to count towards my hosting quota, I am in the process of moving to running them on the web host's server in an umbrella PHP "batch" script, and call this script via cron (this is a Linux server, by the way).
Here's a (working) sample request over HTTP:
http://www.mydomain.com/a/rss2htmlcore/rss2html2.php?XMLFILE=http://www.mydomain.com/a/myapp/xmlcache/feed.xml&TEMPLATE=template.html
This will produce the desired HTML output. An example of how I want this to work on the command line:
/srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/rss2htmlcore/rss2html2-cli.php /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/myapp/xmlcache/feed.xml /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/template.html
This is with the correct shebang line added to "rss2html2-cli.php". I could just as well specify the executable ("/usr/local/bin/php") in the request, I doubt it makes a difference because I am able to run another script (that I wrote myself) either way without problems.
Now, RSS2HTML and RSSmesh are different in that, for starters, they include secondary files -- for example, both include an XML parser script -- and I suspect that this is where I am getting a bit in over my head.
Right now I'm calling exec() from the "umbrella" batch script, like so:
exec("/srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/rss2htmlcore/rss2html2-cli.php /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/myapp/xmlcache/feed.xml /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/template.html", $output)
But no output is being produced. What's the best way to go about this and what "gotchas" should I keep in mind? Is exec() the right way to approach this? It works fine for the other (simple) script but that writes its own output. For this I want to get the output and write it to a file from within the umbrella script if possible. I've also tried output buffering but to no avail.
Do I need to pay attention to anything specific with regard to the includes? Right now they're specified in the scripts as include_once("FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php"); and the specified files are indeed in the same folder.
Further info:
-This is a Linux server.
-I have no direct access to the shell, so I can't test things directly on a command line, everything is via crontab.
-I will admit that support for the FeedForAll scripts leaves a lot to be desired, but I'd like to keep using their scripts if at all possible, if only because I know them and have been using them for a while. I have looked into Simplepie, but the FFA scripts do some things that I've seen no obvious solutions for with Simplepie, like limiting the number of items per individual feed (RSSmesh) or limiting the description length (RSS2HTML).
-Yahoo! Pipes is out, they cache their data for too long for my application.
Should you want to take a look at the code, here are the scripts as txt files. RSS2HTML2 and RSSmesh are the FeedForAll scripts, FeedForAll_XMLParser... is the included parser. Note that I have not yet amended these to handle $argv etc. I have however in "scraper-universal-rss-cli", which works fine with CLI.
If anyone has any thoughts to share on this it would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I think the $hideErrors = 0; line in rss2html is not helping. Since isset is used to check if errors should be displayed you should comment this out. Setting it to zero does nothing since a variable set to 0 still evaluates to true with isset.
Re-run and see if it throws up some errors for you.
Use wget or curl to issue the request against the local web server. Don't use CLI.