How can I include the output of a Perl script into a PHP page?
forms, include, perl, php
Solution
Perl extension
There is a Perl extension available for PHP.
An article from the Zend developer zone details it here.
The extension allows you to:
- load and execute Perl files
- evaluate Perl code
- access Perl variables
- call Perl functions
- instantiate Perl objects
- access properties of Perl objects
- call methods of Perl objects
You can obtain it from CVS using this command:
$ cvs -d :pserver:cvs.php.net:/repository co pecl/perl
An example of running a Perl script is listed here:
Example 1 (test1.pl)
print "Hello from Perl! "
Example 1 (test1.php)
<?php
print "Hello from PHP! ";
$perl = new Perl();
$perl->require("test1.pl");
print "Bye! ";
?>
Problem
We've been asked to support some rather old Perl forms on a new site, as we're using a PHP based CMS we need to include the Perl scripts into our new CMS. I've tried a bit of shell_exec but that's disabled. Has anyone got any ideas?