itub, I see what you have done, but not sure how this differs from the CGI redirect I do to run my PHP script from my Perl. Also, it doesn't solve the problem I have passing data (It would be cool if there was an PHP version of HTML::Template).

I thought I might we able to print the PHP as a here doc, but that bombed as well. Thanks.

I can think of three ways of passing data to PHP:
1. Call it as a real CGI, using LWP to connect to your web server
2. Emulate the CGI environment by setting variables such as $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} and $ENV{QUERY_STRING}. The problem is that PHP is usually compiled in a way that disallows this for security reasons.
3. Create the PHP script on the fly, including the data there. A simple example would be this:

   # multiply $x by $y using php
   use IPC::Open2;
   
   my $x = 5;
   my $y = 7;
   my $php = "<? echo $x * $y ?>";
   
   my ($r, $w);
   my $pid = open2($r, $w, 'php -q');                                  
   
   print $w $php;
   close $w;
   my $result = <$r>;
   print "$x * $y = $result\n";
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Cheers
MonkPaul.