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Lately i started playing with mixing python and php and it happens to be that easy, the point is what is the sense in that.Anyway like the say give to PHP what is PHP and to Python what is Python, th XP guys will tell you that the best way to mix language is to use the strength of each and leave out their weaknesses Today i show you how to call a python script from within php

   //The php code that calles the python code

<?php
  
  //Simple case , call a python code to add two numbers and return the result to php
  
 $param1=10;

 $param2=20;

  $command="Path\/to\/python\/installation  script_add_number.py $param1 $param2";

  //use the passthru command to execute and return the result

  $buffer='';
  ob_start() // prevent outputting till you are done
   passthru($command);
  
  //get the result out
 $buffer=ob_get_contents();
  //clean up the buffer
 ob_end_clean();
 //echo the result
echo $buffer;

?>

The python code to be executed is shown next

#we need the sys module to get access to the passed in parameters
import sys

# the first parameters in sys.argv[0] is the path to the current executing python script

param1=sys.argv[1]

param2=sys.argv[2]

# Python sees this two parameters as string so we need to cast them to integer before we use it

sum=int(param1) + int(param2)

# send the result back to php
print sum

This is how simple it is to mix php and python, what can be done with this lies in the imagination of the programmer
Happy salah to all my muslim coders

I love your example, but why should we mix two high-level language like Python & PHP, i think is better to embed PHP/Python into C/C++ instead of mixing to slow languages.

Though nice. u`re good