Monks,

I am trying to get a variable I have in PHP code to pass through to a perl script. I can execute the perl script from PHP using passthru() or system(), among others, however, I am unclear on how to get the variable from the PHP to be passed and interpreted in the executed Perl script.

I tried

passthru('/home/test.cgi';$var)

but although test.cgi runs, it does not interpret $var. I am not even sure if the placement of $var in the code above is appropriate. I have read the function instructions at php.net, but they did not appear to specify such an option. I only picked it up from searches on google and looking at other pieces of simplistic code.

Most Humbly,

Chris

In reply to Passing variables from PHP to Perl using passthru() by cdherold

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