how to invoke a perl script through php?

[shanx24]

{linux, apache}

how to invoke a perl script that i know is working from the shell prompt?

thanks/erick

[toma42]

make sure the perl has a shebang and use back tics to call external files

/usr/perl/myscript.pl;

[Anon]

Is it possible to call a local script (Perl/Servlet) as if doing an fsockopen.

If the script returns variables by POST, is there anyway of retrieving???

Thanks in advance.

Jason.