Trouble running Perl scripts through PHP

Hey all,
I am pretty green with the PHP stuff, in fact I really dont know much about it at all.

I recently installed a php comment system on
http://wildcat.arizona.edu

In order to get the system to work I had to name the file to .php

Seems that now the Perl Scripts for the banner Ads no longer will run,

Here is the file I am working on...

Also this is the former Perl Command line:

And among the many PHP command lines I have attempted to run the script with:

<?php
exec(perl "/home/webby/html/cgi-bin/WebAdverts/bigbutton.pl");
?>

<?php
exec("/home/webby/html/cgi-bin/WebAdverts/bigbutton.pl");
?>

<?php
exec("perl /home/webby/html/cgi-bin/WebAdverts/bigbutton.pl");
?>

<?
exec ("/home/webby/html/cgi-bin/WebAdverts/bigbutton.pl");
?>

Anyone got any advice for me?

Thanks!

Jon Hasbrouck
Online Editor
Arizona Daily Wildcat

make sure you have the correct path to the perl interpreter

Originally posted by planetsim
make sure you have the correct path to the perl interpreter

I didn't change it from the normal interpreter,

Same page code but with a .html ending:

This one has the banner ads, so obviously the perl interpreter is correct if I can get it to run as before...

would it be possible to convert the bigbutton script to php?

Originally posted by drawmack
would it be possible to convert the bigbutton script to php?

Seeing as I don't know what I am doing with this origional php code...I think I would be even more lost on converting it to php...

In addition to that there are like 4 other perl scripts I need to run, thats just too much trouble to convert all of them.