howto call another php program

[jm33990]

inexperienced user does not see how to pass control to another php program with parameters.

please advise..thx

[Ken2k7]

Huh? Please elaborate.

[BobcatM]

A program inside the same page, or on a different page, or?

Please advise

[jm33990]

not sure how to make it more clear...i'll try

php program a finishes its processing and wishes to pass control to php program b with a few parameters.

program b will output html using the passed parameters.

[shmoyko]

Maybe:

 

header('location: program_b.php?par=1&par=2');

 

Or try reading about curl

[jm33990]

header may work.

not very clean though.

I'm surprised that a modern programming language like php would not have a simple function to call/link to another php program.

[Ken2k7]

What kind of PHP program is b? Can you put up an example in code?

 

You're just not explaining the situation well.

[jm33990]

just thinking at this point...I don't have any code.

it will do as I said...construct and send html. the html is not static...part of it will include the parameters passed from program a

[elis]

It's difficult to understand what you're describing, it sounds like a function to me, though.

[jm33990]

sounds like a function but it's not.

a function, as I understand it, is calling code within the same program.

[Philip]

If it's a lot you are trying to pass to another script, look into the curl library and use a POST to the other script.

[ShadeSlayer]

What do you mean? You want to call code from file a to file b and execute it in file b?

 

Are you looking for the "include()" tag, perhaps?

[corbin]

Edit:  ShadeSlayer beat me to it, but posting anyway ;p.

 

It also sounds like perhaps require would do the job.

 

 

<?php

$name = 'Corbin';

require 'ShowName.php';

 

ShowName.php

<?php

echo "Hello, $name!";

[jm33990]

I solved the problem using shmoyku's suggestion...

header("location:reply.php?host=$hostname&ip=$ipaddr");

 

works perfectly

I will also try the following later...

exec("php reply.php -- arg1 arg2");

 

wondering if that will also do the trick....

[Ken2k7]

getopt