Call PHP from Python with subprocess

Question

my Python script was :

base_url = "http://server.com/sync.php?"
phone_url = "phone=%s" % "12345678"
pass_url = "pass=%s" % "xxxxxxxxx"
verif_url = "u=%s" % "12345678"
url =  base_url + "%s&%s&%s" % (phone_url,pass_url,verif_url)
req = urllib.urlopen(url)
the_page = req.read()

the url look like : http://server.com/sync.php?phone=123456781&pass=xxxxxxxxx&u=12345678

Working fine but it's very slow...

So i tried use Subprocess :

proc = subprocess.Popen("php ./sync.php", "shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
script_response = proc.stdout.read()

How i can send the parameters? (phone, pass,u)

The content of my php file :

$username = $_GET["phone"];
$password = $_GET["pass"];
$u = $_GET["u"];

daouzli · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-13 14:01:04Z

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To provide the parameters to Popen you should store them in a list:

cmd = ["php", "./sync.php"]
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

You can see the Popen help that the first parameter args should be a sequence of program arguments or else a single string.

Note also that you can use the cwd parameter to precise the current directory.

answered Jun 13, 2014 at 14:01

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Marco T. Over a year ago

Ok so for my exemple cmd = ["php", "./sync.php", "?phone=%s" % phone_url "&pass=%s" % pass_url "&u=%s" % verif_url] ?

Marco T. Over a year ago

i don't know from a terminal, but from my browser : server.com/…

acrosman Over a year ago

You cannot pass HTTP GET parameters through the PHP cli. See: stackoverflow.com/questions/4186392/…

Marco T. Over a year ago

Work with : cmd = ["php-cgi", "-f", "./codephp/sync.php", "phone=%s" % phone_u, "pass=%s" % pass_u, "u=%s" % verif_u] proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) But slower than urllib.urlopen Any idea?

Latheesan · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-13 14:02:01Z

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I think you are calling the sub process incorrectly.

P.S. Don't use relative path, use absolute path.

Can you try this:

proc = subprocess.Popen("php /path/to/your/sync.php arg1 arg2 argN", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
script_response = proc.stdout.read()

answered Jun 13, 2014 at 14:02

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Marco T. Over a year ago

i don't understand wich syntax i need use : "php /sync.php phone_url pass_url verif_url" ?

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