this is not the solution to the "interpret php code from perl" problem, but it still something about how those two languages can interact. I fequently use >soap< to connect php script to perl scripts. for example, a perl script is collecting system data and then sends it to the php script running on a webserver, which sorts and updates the data at the mysql server. then again i have a perl server running, which is beeing administrated by a php web gui, all over soap.