Passing value from PHP script to Python script

Question

I looked at the other questions similar to this one, but can't figure this out still.

I have a basic php file that does this:

 ?php $item='example'; $tmp = exec("python testscriptphp.py .$item"); echo $tmp; ? 

While succesfully calls python that I have running on my webhostserver. Now in my python script i want something like this:

 item=$item print item 

Basically I'm asking how to pass variables from PHP to a python script and then back to php if necessary.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Although netcoder pretty much gave you the answer in his comment, here's an example:

Python->PHP

example.py

import os os.system("/usr/bin/php example2.php whatastorymark") 

example2.php

<?php     echo $argv[1];  ?> 

PHP->Python

<?php     $item='example';     $tmp = exec("python testscriptphp.py .$item");     echo $tmp;  ?> 

testscriptphp.py

import sys print sys.argv[1] 

Here's how PHP's command line argument passing works: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.argv.php The same for Python: http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.argv

Answer 2

write a php file example index.php:

<?PHP $sym = $_POST['symbols']; echo shell_exec("python test.py .$sym"); ?> 

$sym is a parameter we passining to test.py python file. then create a python example test.py:

import sys print(sys.argv[1]) 

I hope it help you.