in reply to Re: Make PHP, yatta yatta....
in thread Make PHP Execute in CGI output

I now have 2 installations of php, the server module one and a command line executable one installed to /usr/local/php/. I installed the command line one by leaving off the with-apache configure option.

So I write my HTML to file then pass it to the PHP executable. Not very efficient but it works. Thank you all for putting me onto this method

my $html =<<HTML;
Content-type: text/html\n\n
<?php include('header.php'); ?>
<body>
<!-- rest of doc -->
</body>
</html>
HTML

open PHP, '>phpinput.php';
print PHP $html;
close PHP;

#-q option to PHP forces it to leave off http headers
my $output =eval {`/usr/local/php/bin/php -q phpinput.php`};
print $output unless $@;

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