Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/20/52 11:30

Christoph Freundl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with the persistence of environment variables when
> mixing PHP and SSI (Apache) and I am not sure if I just made an error
> or if this approach cannot work at all.
> So please consider the following files:
>
> setvar.shtml
> -------------------------------------------------
> <!--#set var="myvar" value="myval" -->
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> showvar.php
> -------------------------------------------------
> <?php echo apache_getenv( "myvar" ); ?>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> info.shtml
> -------------------------------------------------
> <!--#include virtual="setvar.shtml" -->
> <!--#include virtual="showvar.php" -->
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> info.php
> -------------------------------------------------
> <?php
> virtual( "setvar.shtml" );

have yuou tried include/require here instead of virtual()

I imagine that the env of the subprocess wouldn't affect
the env of the parent process - i.e. to me it makes sense
if you say the env var in the subprocess is not available in
the parent process.

> echo apache_getenv( "myvar" );
> ?>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> What I would expect is that you get the same result if you call
> info.shtml and info.php. What happens when I tried (PHP 4.3.10 with
> both Apache 1.3.33 and 2.0.53): the shtml shows the variable but the
> php does not, it seems to "forget" the variable set in setvar.shtml.
> Please, can anybody tell me what is going wrong here?
>
> Regards, Christoph
>

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