Thanks, very much, Raditha.
Do you mean to pass my variable as a cgi parameter ?
If so, the problem is that this file that is being uploaded via the form to the
program MyCppProg.exe gets sent as THE input to the prog, apparently as a cgi-type
parameter through stdin (i.e. cin), so that when I try to pass the value as a cgi
parameter, it gets inserted INTO the file that is being uploaded.
Am I understanding correctly, or did I miss the point ?
Thanks,
JB
On Tuesday, September 02, 2003, at 01:21PM, Raditha Dissanayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Had a similar problem when building upload progress bar. Initially i
>used cookies but that had a few minor hiccups. What you can do is to
>encode your variables into the query string. This is accessible as part
>of the env. variables. Since you are familiar with C++ you will get the
>hang of PHP very quickly.
>
>oh and btw the correct way to set a cookie is with session_register(),
>$_SESSION is used for retrieval.
>
>John Bryan wrote:
>
>>I need to use something like a session variable to make a variable available to an
>>existing form-invoked C++ program which takes as input a file being uploaded. Is
>>this even do-able ?? If so, what am I missing here ???
>>
>>The C++ prog used to use the REMOTE_USER env var set by the web server but we are no
>>longer doing authentication via the webserver itself, so this one does not get set,
>>and I need to set something myself. The C++ prog would had been grabbing this by
>>getenv("REMOTE_USER").
>>
>>I was trying some php to set a session var 'UPATH' but the UPATH variable doesn't
>>seem to be visible to MyCppProg.exe :
>>
>>--snip--
>>
>><?php
>>$_SESSION['UPATH'] = 'foobar';
>>?>
>>
>><form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="MyCppProg.exe" method="post">
>> File to Upload: <input name="file" type="file"> <input type="submit" value="Send">
>></form>
>>
>>--snip--
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