Any way to run a Perl include in a PHP script?

canadaman

This is pretty wierd but here goes:

I need to get a Perl script to run as an include in a PHP script.

We bought a dynamic calendaring system for our site a while back called Calendarscript. (www.calendarscript.com). It works quite well. But now we're looking to move to a content management system called Mambo (www.mamboserver.com) written in PHP.

Currently Mambo's calendar system doesn't measure up so we'd like to keep using CalendarScript. But CS works by using server side includes. Here's the code to get the output:

I'm pretty sure that SSI aren't compatible with PHP pages so the Perl include just gets rendered as a hidden input.

Any way to get the Perl to be properly parsed?

canadaman

OK, searched some Perl newsgroups and found the answer.

Include the Perl script using PHP's include! So just
include ""/cgi-bin/calendar.pl?calendar=workshops&template=ssi.html&duration=1w"" and it works.

So obvious, so simple. What stumped me was the way the include was written in Perl. I needed to just include the URL, none of this  stuff.

Now I just need to figure out how to pass the output as a variable to make Mambo happy.

HalfaBee

If you want to caputure the output use

ob_start();
include( 'perl script' );
$output = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

HalfaBee

seby

virtual('/cgi-bin/calendar.pl?calendar=workshops&template=ssi.html&duration=1w');

canadaman

Thanks HalfaBee and seby!

Turns out when I did my testing the include got called when I tried to load it into a variable. By dumb luck it came out in the right place. More testing revealed the problem. I coulnd't figure out why the variable always returned 1.

Thanks!