Comments on: CGI query strings in MT?

Question: CGI query strings in MT?

o2b — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:32:47 -0800

I'm doing some Movable Type development. I'd like to add a custom query string to the normal mt-search strings. I was hoping to use PHP to do something with the string, but unfortunately I can't run PHP in the CGI files. Any options? I'm not a CGI writer, so I may be missing something obvious.

By: boaz

boaz — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:11:26 -0800

PHP as of 4.[something] has a command-line binary that you could call directly from your cgi. I don't know anything about MT's internals (not even what language it's written in), so I can't give any more specific advice.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:39:46 -0800

These may help:

By: o2b

o2b — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:42:27 -0800

Thanks for the links. I've tried the Inman technique, and even the folks at Rackspace can't help me make it work.

I'll keep trying the others, but that looked the most promising.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:45:12 -0800

Can you be more specific about what you want?

Give us an example -- the URL before and after.

By: AmbroseChapel

AmbroseChapel — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:50:09 -0800

Oh, and which version of MT.

And what exactly happens when you try the Inman technique?

Now I've read the Inman page, the point of it is to have a search-results page which has working PHP includes in it. But that doesn't appear to be what you want.

By: o2b

o2b — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:17:00 -0800

Never mind -- the reason I wanted the PHP is incredibly minor, and not worth the effort (an hour on the phone with Rackspace).

I've used javascript instead :)