I've set up Rael Dornfest's perl script for hooking up to the Google API <http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1283>, and it's working swell from the command line (only way I know how to run it unfortunately!), eg:

$perl googly <GoogleKey> related:www.foo.com 5

Would it be hard for me to create another perl script (that I can CRON to execute once a day) to...?:

1) execute the perl script for the API to generate the needed HTML (as invoked in the command line above)
2) output the results to a given PHP file I'd then be able to "Include"

I know this must be super-easy, but this newbie's clueless. I've been whacking at this with @ARGV, system() and backticks(), but I think I'm completely lost! Thanks in advance.

In reply to Running perl and outputting to file by merlinmann

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