PHP in PErl

[Gary]

I am calling a perl script that writes a WEB page - Plain and simple except
that the perl script also writes out some PHP processing. All works fine
when I just create an html file of the program but when I use perl to write
it the php tags are ignored ?

I have the apache Xbithack on so php is parsed for all html files and the
perl script says it is an html file as below.

This code is called from a WEB page

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print <<END;
Content-type: text/html

<?php
SCRIPT etc etc
?>
END

PHP tags are just printed on the screen.

Any pointers.
Gary

 

[nobull]

"Gary" <[email protected]> multi-posts.

Please don't do that.

 

[Joe Smith]

I am calling a perl script that writes a WEB page - Plain and simple except
that the perl script also writes out some PHP processing. All works fine
when I just create an html file of the program but when I use perl to write
it the php tags are ignored ?

PHP is processed on the server only when the server reads it from a file.

 

[Wayne Power]

Look at your first line - #!usr/local/bin/perl - does your perl binary
actually sit in /usr/local/bin/? Mine is in /usr/bin
Try $whereis perl

Wayne

 

[Gary]

PHP is processed on the server only when the server reads it from a file.

So basically this will never work.

The reason for this is as follows.

I want to load an HTML page with PHP tags that then calls a CGI written in
Perl but also to pass it parameters. The perl program does some work, and
will then need to return resulkts to the PHP program for display . I guess I
could have the perl program write the results to a file and then have PHP
readc the file but this seems crude it at all possible anyway ?

Gary