Calling PHP (cgi) from a perl script and passsing parameters

Hi, have been having problems passing parameters to a PHP script from a Perl script . I call the PHP script using (as an example): $a=/home/ozbcoz/http/testphp.php fred=testing; print "$a"; then I have a PHP script showing: #!/usr/local/php/bin/php -q <? print "count=$argc<br>"; print "0=$argv[0]<br>"; print "1=$argv[1]<br>"; print "2=$argv[2]<br>"; phpinfo(); ?> the outout comes out as: count=0 0= 1= 2= plus the phpinfo bumpf - which shows argc as 0 and an empty array for argv sny clues anyone ? Jim Carey www.OZbcoz.com discount domain registration