How a web server interface with PHP

Question

I want to handle http requests through another web server or my own written server in the future.

I want to understand how to properly provide php with request data.

• in what form should the request data be provided
• how data is provided by php, via stdin or otherwise
• how php processes the received request data subsequently, any additional actions necessary to fill in the variables $ _SERVER, etc.

Answer 1

. - PHP CGI. , php, POST stdin PHP stdout.

• PHP / -
• POST PHP-CGI?
• http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Server
• (CGI)?

PHP $_SERVER: , PHP_SELF PHP_AUTH_USER .., . - (, HTTP- HTTP_ * env-).

Answer 2

php mod_php, C, , , .