prg:php - can it be done ??

[Nimmit]

Hello,
Im having some dificulty finding out weather or not it is actualy possible to use php as a rewritemap prg: script - as this forum is the mod_rewrite forum, i guess you guys are prob the best people to ask

I have spent ages looking and can seem to find a definitive answer?

This bloke seems to think you can in one of his examples
http://www.davidcoulson.net/writing/lxf/39/apache.pdf

But i cant find any other information on the matter?

Has anyone had any experence with this?

Thanks in advance

Sam

[Caterham]

or not it is actualy possible to use php as a rewritemap prg: script

It's only possible if you can use the she-bang line at the top of your PHP script like in Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl

The script will not be prased through the apache webserver.

The author of the PDF used

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q

You can call PHP scripts on the command (win)/shell (unix), so it looks like that this is possible. The "-q" is the quiet-mode.

RewriteMaps will not work with Windows.

I have spent ages looking and can seem to find a definitive answer?

Has anyone had any experence with this?

Just try it out...

[Nimmit]

Thank you very much for the info.

I have been trying it, but on windows. It has just been making apache hang i will have to try it on the server instead of my local machine.

Thanks again

Sam