Another way of passing arguments:
If you have some CGI programs that depend on some libraries where you can't change the source code (in my case an online payment library), you can pass the arguments by changing some environment variables.
Of course the CGI program has to get the GET/POST variables in the usual manner.
It simulates, more or less, a direct call from the server to a CGI program:
// preparing the arguments passed to this PHP page
$QSTRING = $QUERY_STRING;
// pay attention to the maximum length of the QUERY string.
while (list ($header, $value) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)){
if (empty($QSTRING))
$QSTRING = $header.'='.$value;
else
$QSTRING = $QSTRING.'&'.$header.'='.$value;
}
putenv('REQUEST_METHOD=GET');
putenv('QUERY_STRING='.$QSTRING);
unset($return_array);
exec('my_CGI', $return_array, $return_val);
Now you can parse the output of 'my_CGI' in return_array.
