RE: [PHP] Re: passing variables between PHP and Perl

Just a quick addition... when a PHP script is run as a shell script from a Perl script (that make sense?) it cannot pass back exit variables to the Perl script... Would love to be proven wrong on this as I had to dust off Perl programming for a RADIUS interface some time ago. Dave > >http://php.net/exec/ > >You can get back whatever Perl spews out to 'stdout' using that. > >> I'm integrating a telephony service into a clients site. I'm pretty handy >> with PHP but I don't have much knowledge of perl. I've setup up my >client's >> site using PHP and the service provided me with a Perl script to make the >> telephone connection. I used virtual() in my PHP script to pass variables >to >> the Perl script but now I need to deal with passing the results from the >> Perl back to PHP. >> >> Is there something like virtual() in Perl that I could use to relay the >> variables back to my script? Can I call up the Perl variables from my PHP >> script after virtual()? >>