Question

I have a perl script which takes input as a file and return results in text files. I want to use file as input, which is uploaded by user through php page. For that what should I do? I have PHP 5.3.14 and ActivePerl 5.14.x.

Answer 1

Thanks @leftclickben

I’ve solved the problem. I used a form to get file from user and then saved the filename to an argument $file.

Then I passed $file to Perl script using

$result = shell_exec("path\to\perl.pl" $file);
echo $result;

$file passed to perl.pl as an array named $ARGV[0]

#!usr/bin/perl

$filename = $ARGV[0];
open(HDL, $filename) or die "file not available, restart program\n";