Re: Help with exec.

On 03/03/2010 13:01, Paul Halliday wrote:
> I need to pipe some data to an external application.
> 
> I have this:
> 
> while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($theData[0])) {
>     $src_ip[] = $row[0];
>     $dst_ip[] = $row[1];
>     $sig_desc[] = $row[2];
> 
>     $rec ++;
>     if ( $rec == $recCount ) {
>             break;
>     }
> }
> 
> for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($src_ip); $i++) {
>     $tmpResult[] = "$sig_desc[$i],$src_ip[$i],$dst_ip[$i]\n";
> }
> 
> 
> The external program is called like:
> 
> cat results.csv | theprogram outputfilename
> 
> Is there a way mimic this w/o outputting $tmpResult to a file first?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Hi,

I have used this code to feed data to gpg and read back the encrypted
result, Im sure you can adapt it to your needs.

function Encrypt($data){
	
	# http://www.theoslogic.com/scripts/php-gpg/
	
	$gpg_command="/usr/bin/gpg $parameters";
	
	$errLog = "/tmp/errors.log";
	
	$dspecs = array(
		0=>array("pipe", "r"),
		1=>array("pipe", "w"),
		2=>array("file", $errLog, "a")
	);
	
	$encrypted="";
	$procdata="";
	
	$gpgproc = proc_open($gpg_command, $dspecs, $pipes);
	
	if (is_resource($gpgproc)) {
		fwrite($pipes[0], $data);
		fclose($pipes[0]);
		
		while($procdata = fgets($pipes[1], 1024)) {
			$encrypted .= $procdata;
		}
		fclose($pipes[1]);
	}
	
	return $encrypted;
}

It works really well.

Regards

Ian
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