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Why would you want to use PHP to execute Perl code? Please take the advice given previously (in this thread) regarding displaying the results of your server side script within a web page.

Update: Also http://http://www.computerhope.com/file.com isn't a valid URL.

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Re^4: RUN A FILE FROM HTML
by majo (Novice) on May 16, 2012 at 12:55 UTC
    Is there a way of triggering this script on the server from the client side? Thanks 
     #!/usr//bin/perl -w
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Time::HiRes 'time','sleep';
 
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$request = new HTTP::Request('GET', "http://www.computerhope.com/file.
+com");
$start = time(  );
$response = $ua->request($request);
$end = time(  );
$latency = $end - $start;
 
print length($response->as_string(  )), " bytes received in $latency s

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      Yes, but I already gave you links explaining how create CGI scripts which run on the server side, returning their results to the client. A more complex way would be to use AJAX, jQuery could make that task easier for you, provided this is what you're looking for.

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