Hi folks, i'm not even sure where to begin on this one (which makes it hard to search for solutions)

Basically i have a perl script which runs in the background performing various operations on an SQL database using DBI (love that module!).

Separately, i have a website which is essentially just displaying the information in the sql database. It can however, modify the contents of the SQL database.

The perl script running in the background has various "steps" which it goes through. I'd like to be able to control these steps through the web front end.

The obvious first thought i had was polling a table in the SQL database but i wondered if there was a simpler or more elegant solution?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thank you all!!

In reply to Question about communicating with a running perl script by Amblikai

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