Need HELP Converting Perl Scripts to PHP

[flumpy]

I've got several Perl scripts that I need to convert to PHP scripts. The conversion shouldn't be too hard with one exception. The Perl scripts are making calls to C functions. There is a command within the Perl as follows...

Use Essbase

I'm guessing maybe the Use command in Perl is similar to a require not sure though. Anyway there is a file called Essbase.xs that has about 5 functions written in C. Later down in the Perl scripts there are calls to these C functions. Could anyone tell me if/how I can do this in PHP?

[Shrike]

use <packagename> in perl installs perl modules (like the stuff on CPAN). The PHP equivalent is PEAR, but it's about a millionth of the size of CPAN 🙂

Perhaps you can use the C functions in PHP with COM, no idea how this works though.

[AstroTeg]

I would wonder if something like this would work:

http://pear.php.net/package/Inline_C

[flumpy]

Yeah I saw the inline C code package on there. I wondered if
that would work. I haven't really found any other solutions as
of yet. I thought about the COM solution but realized that was
a windows only thing and I'll be doing this on Solaris.