in reply to Because PHP sucks: escape to Perl.
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' }