Re: Run another script

in reply to Run another script

There are many options:

exec(), if you want to start the other process and immediately exit your program
system(), if you want to start the process and wait until it has finished to do some post processing
backticks or qx if you want to run the other program and process its output
IPC::Run or IPC::Open3 if you want even more interaction with the other program

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Re^2: Run another script
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Oct 19, 2007 at 15:03 UTC

Use the PHP module's embedded interpreter to run the PHP within your Perl script (may or may not work; I just know this exists, I've never used it myself)
Given the similarities of PHP and Perl syntax, it may be simple to convert the PHP file to Perl and do all of the work in a single program. If the only purpose of the txt files is to communicate data to PHP, this could eliminate the need to create them at all.

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