passing vars from Perl to PHP

[CurrentWave]

I posted this under general for the Perl, but maybe I should post it here too.

I need to gab some variables from a Perl 5 file before they are gone.

First, I need to know how to call a php file from a Perl file, and second, how to pass the vars from the Perl file to the second file (PHP) for use.
I need to keep it simple :-)

Thanks!

[jeffmott]

You could start with looking at PHP::Include (http://search.cpan.org/author/ESUMMERS/PHP-Include-0.05/lib/PHP/Include.pm). Though the documentation says it is form simple PHP files so I might not put too much faith in it.

Since PHP is a part of the document that is parsed by the server before being returned, and a Perl file functions more as an independant application, it would probably be easier to include output from a Perl program into PHP rather than the other way around. The system function would allow you to execute a Perl program and store the return value, almost as if the entire Perl script was a subroutine for your PHP file to call.

But all of this is fairly speculative. In fact the easiest solution may be to write your entire program in one language.

[CurrentWave]

I agree that staying with one or the other would be best, but the Perl file belongs to a third party and is use by their secure server for transaction processing. So over that I have no control.

What I want to do is to
(1) send autoresponses
(2) write the vars data to a file with an unique name.

I know how to do this in PHP, and have tried to do it in Perl, but its bombing on me.

So I thought if I could just pass the vars from Perl into a more managable PHP file - easy street, but you know it never works out that way.

Thanks for your reply!