OK, we are making progress. I have perl and php talking now.

How can I pass vars without a form action? Say I have the vars working if I use a submit button (I suppose they are 'hidden' vars.

Now I want the perl script to perform a redirect sort of function, bringing the vars to the php script without any interactive user action needed- In other words I want to run blah.cgi and have it pass any values defined in blah.cgi to blah.php.

Thanks for your patience and time with me. Nathan