newbie database question

Hi, Thanks in advance if your able to answer this... I run a .txt perl/cgi database/shopping cart which uses the command line http://localhost/_uns/cgi-bin/store.cgi?command=listitems&pos=0&type=all to produce a list of all items in the database. I also have a front page index.htm which has a header and I would like to be able to generate the above output to this page as soon as people visit the site. Is there any way I can do this with PHP. Or at least an someone point me in the right direction. William L Kolln