Pass data from PHP form to Python Script - Publish Python results to a PHP page

Question

I am implementing a RPi based Home Automation project where RPi is connected to a Motor Control circuit. The circuit, based on RPi input, drives an AC Motor either Forward or Backwards, so that I can close/open my Window Shades.

I have implemented the whole project and wrote a Python Script that get's raw input from keyboard (via SSH to the RPi) and successfully Opens or Closes the shades.

I want now to convert the console script so that it communicates with a PHP page on the RPi and based on user's input to act accordingly.

As a first version I want to create a PHP input form and pass values of two form variables, direction & duration to two corresponding Python values. The result of the Python script should be submiteb back to the web server and shown to the user's browser.

What is the best/easiest way to pass values from PHP to Python and vice versa?

iagorubio · Answer

You can also use Python with cgi interface on your web server. You just need to look where is the cgi directory on your webserver - by default in apache it's cgi-bin - and put there an executable Python script using Python's cgitb library. As example: #!/usr/bin/env python import cgitb cgitb.enable() form = cgi.FieldStorage() if "direction" not in form or "duration" not in form: print "

Form

" print "" return direction = form["direction"].value duration = form["duration"].value # Continue your script from here # For output use Python's print to print HTML to the web server's standar output #....