Calling Perl scripts from PHP.

CuriousGeorge has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a perl script which uses the perl DBI package. However, when I call this script from a PHP script I get the error "Can't locate object method "connect" via package "DBI" at ./dumb.pl line 12." in my apache error logs. I can run this perl script from the command line with no problems. Can anyone be of assistance?

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Re: Calling Perl scripts from PHP. by voyager (Friar) on Jul 17, 2001 at 22:04 UTC
When run as a cgi script, it runs in a different directory and/or has different contents in @INC. Try a `use lib "path/to/modules";` in your script and see if that does it.	[reply]
Re: Calling Perl scripts from PHP. by strredwolf (Chaplain) on Jul 18, 2001 at 09:12 UTC
If it's a SQL server the Perl Script talks to, you may want to rewrite it in PHP -- which is rather trivial to do with PHP and it's native interface to SQL. Some things definetly need the port job. -- $Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";	[reply]