From your code it looks like this is written to work in mod_perl1. I don't see any problems with your approach (it's quite nifty), but I thought I would throw out a second way of handling this type of problem with the new filter support in apache2 and mod_perl2.

• http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/filters.html
• http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2003/04/17/filters.html

Both PHP and mod_perl can act as a filter. In your case, you should be able to leave the PHP page unaltered, and filter it's output through a custom mod_perl filter. The filter gets as input the generated PHP page, and can parse out any info it needs and spit out a completely different page.

But since you have what looks to be a working system, it probably makes sense to stick with that.

- Cees