Due to reasons that are have nothing to do with the actual question, I need to call and use an external script via PHP to perform a string replacement on a complete html document. The replacement strings and the source code need to be passded to this script via php exec(). For this example, I have used a simple python script to take over the replacement.
PHP script looks like this:
$source = file_get_contents("somehtmlfile.html");
$replaceString = "Some text in the HTML doc";
$replaceTo = "Some other text";
$parsedString = system("python replace.py $replaceString $replaceTo $source", $retval);
print ("Done:" .$mystring);
Then the Python script will do the following:
import sys
import string
dataFrom = sys.argv[1];
dataTo = sys.argv[2];
dataSourceCode = sys.argv[3];
rep = dataSourceCode.replace(dataFrom, dataTo);
print rep;
The problem is that I can't pass the complete html source as an argument to the shell, at least not in the way shown above. From what I understood, while the html code gets passed to the shell it interpretes some sections as commands (multiline could be an issue here I suppose).
The output I receive from the script :
sh: cannot open !DOCTYPE: No such file sh: cannot open html: No such file sh: cannot open head: No such file sh: cannot open title: No such file
... (this goes on)
Any suggestions?
