Executing php snippets

rubyonrails-talk
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With the following method, I am able to execute and display a php page:

   def phpstuff      require 'net/http'        url = URI.parse('http://127.0.0.1/phpstuff.php’)        req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)        res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|          http.request(req)        }       render_text res.body     end

However, let's suppose I want to simply execute a snippet of php code. If I am just running straight out of mongrel, on say port 3000 (not through apache), how can do that? Can I do it in the rhtml somehow?

Also, is there way, from within Rails, to get back a value returned, say, by executing a method in php? Thanks, Ike

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% php -r 'print("hello world\n");' hello world

If you can call php via the CLI then that would work... kind of ugly, but it would work. You can also just pass it a filename to execute and then parse the results inside of Rails to do whatever you need to do.

-philip