Re: postprocessing html+php code generated by a mod_perl system before to send it to browser

[Clint Edwards <ce...@mcclatchyinteractive.com>]

I agree with Geoff, upgrading is the cleanest way around this problem.
However, that solution was not immediately possible for me and I am in a
similar situation.  I have an Apache Handler that generates HTML pages
with embedded PHP.  I wrote another Apache Handler to process the output
from the first Handler.  In the second handler I use the perl module PHP
(http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/PHP-0.09/PHP.pm) to do the heavy
lifting for me.  You may not use an Apache Handler to do this, but you
can still use the PHP module to process your PHP.  Again this is a bit
hackish, but still a workaround.

Another possible solution is to write your HTML file to your docroot,
and redirect the user to the HTML page on the docroot.

Clint

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:55 -0500, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> 
> Edgard Pineda wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 	I need some hints on this problem: I have a code in mod_perl that
> > generate a html page with some php code (<?php ... ?>), but before to
> > send this data to the browser I would like the mod_php processed the
> > code first. How can I accomplish this? (I use mod_perl 1.26, Apache 1.3,
> > php 4.1) (are there some functions on Apache module?)
> 
> the short answer is that you can't do this with apache 1.3.
> 
> if you upgrade to apache 2.0 or higher you can do this with recent versions
> of php.  a cursory glance through the php code and configuration leads me to
> believe that php will function as a filter if you build php like this
> 
>   $ ./configure --with-apxs2filter=/path/to/apache/bin/apxs
> 
> but I'm not really into php, so it might take more than that.  but it looks
> like php definitely has a filter option in at least 5.0.5 (and most likely
> earlier).  folks on the various php help lists should know more.
> 
> HTH
> 
> --Geoff
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