<#exec> for PHP?

[Anon]

I have a poll script running at my site's homepage which has been renamed to the extension ".php3". Until now I have used the SSI tag <# exec cgi="whatever.pl">. Now I want to use have this code in the PHP version. I tried this but it doesn't help:

<?php exec("cgi-bin/somefile.pl"); ?>

Thanks for any codes and suggestions.

[Anon]

http://www.php.net/manual/function.virtual.php