php and perl

chrisleon

I hope this is a simple question, and doesn't make me look to dumb. But I write a lot of perl and a little php, and I was hoping to incorporate some php sessions inside my .pl's or .cgi's. I do not think this is possible, since php likes the extensions of .php or php4, but I thought I would ask some body that knows a lot more than I. If you have any suggestions, I would be very gratefull.

Thank you.

acey99

require "file.php";

chrisleon

how would that work?

acey99

ok, guess you're going to have to specify what you want to do..

Perl & PHP are very similar, both are rooted in C programming (As you probably know)

they Can talk to one another, it's a bit difficult, btu they can.

I'm actually prefering PHP over Perl, due to it's a lot easier to do things in PHP with it's built in functions (mail for one)

but if You want a Perl script to call a php script, or include it that's a bit more fun.

bad_goose

I don't get it - doesn't the require function just include the specified file as perl code? So if you did require "file.php" it wouldn't work unless the php script only contained perl code. And then it would be pointless.

Somehow what you need to do is get the output of a php script into perl. Then you can send the script arguments in the querystring. However, I don't know of a way in perl to include a file as a server request (short of opening an HTTP socket connection to localhost).

Maybe somebody else can help.

ShawnD

i think i have an idea... try this:
<script language="php"> blah blah blah php crap here and there </script>

it might just work. Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf says that you can run php through that script function but i'm not sure if he meant while the file is named .php or not....
it's worth a shot.

bad_goose

That still only works on php-enabled files (i.e. .php and .php4).