allowed?

[seprulez]

is the following allowed? is there some other way of sending post data to the cgi file?

 

include ("http://somedir/afile.cgi?$_POST");

 

thanks in advance!!

[beansandsausages]

as far as i know $_POST is used to collet data from a form.

[seprulez]

let me make it more clear....i have a form in a html file which takes me to the php file on submitting....now from this php file i want to execute the cgi file which will use the post data from the html file..

 

hope that made sense....sorry if my question is dumb....ive just started using php...thanks

[papaface]

This probably isnt the best way to do it, but it should work:

       foreach ($_POST as $value)
       	{
       	$string .= "&" . $value;
       	}
       	include("http://somedir/afile.cgi?" . trim($string,"&"));

Not entirely sure how the values are seperated, but change the & sign accordingly.

 

Not sure if you can use include for this though. You might have to use file_get_contents or cURL.

[trq]

You might need to look at curl. I have to ask though, what does this cgi app do that php can't?