Perl including output of a PHP script? 1

[danielhozac]

I need to know how I could include the output of a PHP script in my Perl scripts. Anyone know how to do this? //Daniel

 

[hmerrill]

What would the PHP script be outputing - would it be a web page? In order for perl to be able to execute, and capture the output of, a PHP script, PHP would have to be built as a CGI interpreter. You would want to be able to do something like this:

@php_output_lines = `/path/to/php/script.php`; ### notice the use of backticks here

But I can't be much help since I haven't built PHP that way, but I know it can be done.

If PHP is built into the webserver, and the PHP script you want to run and capture the output of is a web page, then you might be able to use a package like LWP::Simple to retrieve the page into a scalar variable(or array?) and then do with it what you will.

HTH. Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.

http://www.missioncriticallinux.com

 

[danielhozac]

I use PHP as a module, so I guess I will use LWP::Simple to do the job, thanks. //Daniel