Because PHP sucks: escape to Perl.

Add these three lines to a PHP script to make it a Perl script instead. (Performs badly, doesn't support POST via STDIN, etcetera, but still the end result is more usable than PHP, IMO.)

<? $f = escapeshellarg($_SERVER[SCRIPT_FILENAME]);
list($h, $b) = preg_split("/\n\n/", `perl -x $f`,2);
foreach (preg_split("/\n/", $h) as $_) header($_);
echo $b; exit; ?>

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

print "perl++\n" for 1..10;
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Re: Because PHP sucks: escape to Perl. by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 06, 2006 at 20:16 UTC
Wouldn't it be better to use `perl -x` instead of `perl -e` and `eval`?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Because PHP sucks: escape to Perl. by Juerd (Abbot) on Feb 06, 2006 at 20:22 UTC
Wouldn't it be better to use perl -x instead of perl -e and eval? Certainly. I forgot all about -x. Thanks for the suggestion; I've updated the snippet. Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]
Re: Because PHP sucks: escape to Perl. by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 20, 2006 at 00:02 UTC
FWIW: I use a very similar trick all the time in conjunction with SSI, where the polyglot ends up looking like this: `<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de"> <head> <title>foobar</title> </head> <body> <!--#exec cmd="perl -x $SCRIPT_FILENAME" --> </body> </html> <!--#if expr="0 = 1" --> #!/usr/bin/perl # generate page body here __END__ <!--#endif -->` [download] It’s actually quite neat as a crude templating system when the script-generated part of the page has little to no variation in markup structure (f.ex. just a simple table or list). Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]