I'm writing what should be a dirt simple perl scipt for a friends site and I've hit a wall in dealing with his php layout.
He has header.php and footer.php that I need to be able to exec and use the output of in my perl script. I of course tried
$header = `php -q /var/www/html/testing/header.php`;
Now this works fine from the command line, but once it gets to apache it just dumps all the whole program as plain html to the browser without executing it. And it doesn't exec the php file either.

I never cared for php and I'm begining to really hate it now. Any suggestions?

Also, I can't use PHP::Include because I'm running perl v5.6 and MCPAN says it needs 5.8

In reply to An unfortunate incounter with PHP (loading php output into a perl variable) by Bishma

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