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parsing external cgi script results to variable in PHP

I want to put the reult of a CGI script into a string, then into an array so i can reformat the results.
I am able to call the external CGI script, which returns the correct result but cant figure out how to get the reults into a string.

The external CGI script is:
http://checker.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/cgi-bin/externaldslcheck.cgi?pstn=01279466222&user=csuk&pass=druney73

The value that is returned is:
ADSL2PLUS_ANNEXA_UP_ESTIMATE=1.25 ADSL2PLUS_ANNEXA_DOWN_ESTIMATE=14.181 ADSL2PLUS_STATUS=0 BT_LINE_LENGTH=1904

does anybody know how to do this?

<?php
$pstn2 = $_POST["pstn"]; 
echo "$pstn2"; 
echo "<br /><br />";
$str = include("http://checker.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/cgi-bin/externaldslcheck.cgi?pstn=01279466222&user=csuk&pass=druney73"); 
echo "<br /><br />";
echo $str;
echo "<br /><br />";
echo $str;
echo "<br /><br />";
?>

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Rob Siklos

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ahoffmann

eval('$arr=array("'. str_replace(" ",'","',str_replace("=",'"=>"',file_get_contents("http://checker.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/cgi-bin/externaldslcheck.cgi?pstn=01279466222&user=csuk&pass=druney73"))).'");');
print_r($arr);

bilbo-uk

ASKER

Sorry but the person who posted this has now left the company hence why a comment has not been left earlier. I don't think it was a complete solution but gave him some things to try which lead to working out how to do it.

If I can find where the code is I will post what he ended up going with

Thanks

bilbo-uk

ASKER

In the end this was done as follows by the look of things

$str = file_get_contents("http://checker.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/cgi-bin/externaldslcheck.cgi?pstn=$pstn2&user=&pass=");
$a = explode(" ", $str);

Then access those array variables

$length = "$a[3]";
$down = "$a[1]";
$status = "$a[2]";
$up = "$a[0]";

Regards

Paul