Take data from user and use that data in a python script

Question

I am a newbie in coding. I am learning php and python.

I want to take data from user. For this I used google and found a form based on html and php

index.html

<html>
<body>

<form action="data.php" method="get">
TEXT1: <input type="text" name="text1">
TEXT2: <input type="text" name="text2">
<input type="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

Now data.php can use:

$_GET["text1"] $_GET["text2"]

But my script is in python. I don't know how to use the data given by user.

Please help.

Regards, Abhishek.

Save it to a file or database using PHP then load it using Python. — Nick Pickering
– Nick Pickering, Commented Mar 30, 2013 at 7:32
Will definitely try it but I fear that if many people access it at a time it can create a problem. Maybe I am wrong but just doubt that if someone gets result with wrong data... I mean he entered something and get result for something else... Sorry for silly question... — Abhishek Jain
– Abhishek Jain, Commented Mar 30, 2013 at 7:36

user1871003 · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-30 07:33:30Z

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You could the system(..) [http://php.net/manual/en/function.system.php] command to call your python script with command line arguments.

system('python myScript.py ' . $_GET['text1'] . ' ' . $_GET['text2']);

Although I would really advice against using user provided input in this way, if a user would send 1;rm -rf /;echo as $_GET['text1'] your system would die.. (assuming apache is running as root, which would also be a bad idea)

answered Mar 30, 2013 at 7:33

user1871003

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Abhishek Jain Over a year ago

Thanks for quick reply. I am not having root access... Will this still work? Ans can you tell some way to prevent hackers from killing the m/c? Else no one will use it.

Koen Betsens · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-30 07:37:01Z

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If you use a python framework like Pylons/Pyramid, you add your request parameters to your processing function, for instance:

def process_data(request):



   text1 = request.params.get('text1')

answered Mar 30, 2013 at 7:37

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