Assigning variable from remote script

[ggDuff]

I have a php script that needs to assign a variable from a remote perl script.

I tried this:

$a = include('http://www.remotedomain.com/cgi-bin/inventory_check.pl');

but it only gave me a value of true (1)

The perl script outputs only a simple integer - no HTML or anything else.

This seems like such a simple thing to do and I have a feeling I'm gonna feel pretty dumb when I find the answer but I haven't been able to figure it out thus far.

Thanks in advance!

[getDizzle]

Use the output buffer functions:

ob_start();
include("http://www.remotedomain.com/cgi-bin/inventory_check.pl");
$a = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Not sure how well this works with remote files, though.

[ggDuff]

That worked!

Thanks!!