Accessing PHP variables with Perl

[Kubaton Lover]

I have a site which is primarily PHP and I'm setting a bunch of PHP
environment variables with statements like:
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['valid_user'] = $userid;

Is there a way for my Perl scripts to access those session variables? I've
never done that before with Perl.

Thanks.

 

[Jim Toth]

I have a site which is primarily PHP and I'm setting a bunch of PHP
environment variables with statements like:
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['valid_user'] = $userid;

Is there a way for my Perl scripts to access those session variables? I've
never done that before with Perl.

Environmental variables are in the %ENV hash.

perl -le 'print $ENV{"SHELL"}'

If the session variables are indeed environmental
variables, they should be accessible that way.

 

[Kubaton Lover]

I have a site which is primarily PHP and I'm setting a bunch of PHP
environment variables with statements like:
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['valid_user'] = $userid;

Is there a way for my Perl scripts to access those session variables? I've
never done that before with Perl.

Environmental variables are in the %ENV hash.

perl -le 'print $ENV{"SHELL"}'

If the session variables are indeed environmental
variables, they should be accessible that way.

I thought so, too, but when I run the following code, none of those
variables show up even though other PHP scripts see the variables without a
problem.

Perl script:
foreach $env_var (keys %ENV) {
print "$env_var = <font color=blue>$ENV{$env_var}</font><br>";
}

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Environmental variables are in the %ENV hash.

perl -le 'print $ENV{"SHELL"}'

If the session variables are indeed environmental
variables, they should be accessible that way.

No, PHP stores session variables in temp files (one for each session).
You would need to use a custom session handler of some sort to share them.

 

[James Willmore]

I have a site which is primarily PHP and I'm setting a bunch of PHP
environment variables with statements like:
$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['valid_user'] = $userid;

Is there a way for my Perl scripts to access those session
variables? I've never done that before with Perl.

Try using the PHP::Session module
http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/PHP-Session-0.22/lib/PHP/Session.pm

HTH

--
Jim

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