note 12438 deleted from function.exec by vincent

Note Submitter: marat@provote.com ---- After agonizing over the seemingly simple question of how to pass back a string value from a PERL script to a PHP script, trying the system, and passthru functions, as well as backticks, proved futile. However this wonderful exec function is the answer. It's terribly simple: If you want to return any number of scalars from your PERL script to PHP, then print them to stdout at the end of your PERL, as in: <pre> print $scalar1 ; print $scalar2 ; print $scalar3 ; </pre> Then, on the PHP side, you simply declare: <pre> exec("path_to_perl_file", $array) </pre> Now you just loop through $array, to grab the scalars output by your PERL script... Enjoy, hope this helps someone...