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PHP vs. CGI mailing and getting PHP data into CGI

Asked by sciwriter in PHP Scripting Language, Server Side Includes (SSI)

Tags: php, perl, getting, vs

In a previous Q -- PHP/Q_21459838.html -- I thought it would be easy to get PHP variables from within a CGI application, like  --  @pairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}); -- but it is more complex than that.

We could run a CGI from PHP with virtual function() -- Squinky, I hope you are there to elaborate on how -- but the main problem is to get PHP session data into CGI variables.  All of this comes about, BTW, because HTML cannot handle nested FORMS or cross variable posting from one form to the other on a page.

So if I plan to keep my original CGI mailing program, it would be a lot easier to just copy the relevant PHP session data from one form area to the next, using Javascript, and then submit that to the CGI program.

What are relative strengths of PHP vs. CGI mail programs?  I've heard the CGI mailer (Perl) is more robust, I'll need to send fully formatted pages to several recipients, and even split some data out to send to other recipients.  Need to use basic CC encryption, and need modest field validation.

If I start from scratch using PHP, does anyone know of any free mail templates to speed up PHP writing?  If PHP mailing is not as reliable as CGI, I need to know before I do this, my CGI has worked flawlessly for years on shared Linux hosting.  If I go PHP, it has to be robust, failure free, and easy to do.  Thx for input.
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