Move Upload File from PHP to CGI - php

Question

Im trying to pass post file information to an upload.php file and have that information be sent to a CGI script. There is nothing on the net on how to go about doing this that i can find, iv spent days. I know there are a few people out there that need this, it could help us all that have legacy perl scripts.
Dataflow:
Jquery --> Upload.php --> index.cgi
My php:
<?php
if(isset($_FILES['file'])) {
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], "../index.cgi" . $_FILES['file']['name'])){
echo "success";
exit;
}
}
?>
Post call to CGI example:
foobar.com/index.cgi?act=store&data=$filename
Any suggestions would help greatly. Thank you.

Answer 1

From my understanding, your CGI script is receiving a parameter which is the path of the uploaded script. However you are attempting to pass the uploaded script to your CGI script using a function that is only supposed to move a file from 1 place to another without executing a script.
my suggestion is to do the following
<?php
if(isset($_FILES['file'])) {
$destination = "new/path/to/".$_FILES['file']['name'];
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $destination)){
$data = array();
//You can add multiple post parameters here
//$data = array('param1' => 'value1', 'param2' => 'value2');
$url = "http://url/to/hello.cgi";
// You can POST a file by prefixing with an # (for <input type="file"> fields)
$data['file'] = '#'.$destination;
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$result = curl_exec($handle);
if($result) {
echo "success";
}
exit;
}
}
?>
You can execute the cgi script via a CURL POST and pass any params you want