| Re: Calling a php file from another on apache server [message #181079 is a reply to message #181078] |
Wed, 10 April 2013 20:34   |
Jordan Thompson
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Registered: April 2013
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Hi Jerry,
thanks for getting back...
> First of all, do you have permission to issue the exec() function? Many
*** Yes, because the "hello.txt" file that is being touched in the lower-level file is being created by that file.
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> shared systems have it disabled for security reasons.
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> If you do have permission, is the php executable available to you?
*** Yes - see above
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> Again, on a shared system, it may or may not be.
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> Finally, if it is available, the second script is going to be executed
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> in the cli environment, not the web. This means the session_start()
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> will fail, as there is no web server involved (well, it may not fail -
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> but it won't do anything). And its output goes to stdout, (which is fed
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> back to the second parameter of exec(), which you are not using, so it
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> is thrown away), not to the web.
*** I am not getting any errors in either the apache log or the php log, but that would explain why nothing is displaying on the browser. How can I do this?
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> IOW, what you're trying to do is definitely not common, and probably not
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> the right way to go about things.
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> What is it you're really trying to do?
Fair enough. I want to call a php file that will access a database and return the results of its query into the web page so it looks seamless to the user.
I tried doing this via an include. It worked, but I would have to expose the username/password in a file accessible to the web (under htdocs.)
I tried putting it in cgi-bin (and including it from there), but that did not work because apache correctly won't allow a client into cgi-bin (but calling it from cgi-bin seems to work, but nothing is displayed to the user.)
What is the correct way to hide the username/password from the user (preferably in a single file that is included in various php files) and display the results in html for a browser?
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