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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:07:29+00:00

I realize it’s probably something strange, but here is what I have. I have

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I realize it’s probably something strange, but here is what I have.

I have an application (handwriting recognition engine) written in C/C++. This application has Perl wrapper which was made by application’s authors using SWIG. My website is written in PHP, so I’m looking for some ways to make PHP work with C/C++ application.

The only way I can think of now is to create a CGI script (perl script) which accepts POST request from my website (AJAX request), sends it to the recognition engine through it’s Perl wrapper, gets the required data and returns the required data as a response to AJAX request.

Do you think it could be done this way? Are there any better solutions?

Thank you!

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    Do you think it could be done this way?

    Yes, no reason it can’t be done.

    Are there any better solutions?

    May be. If you intend to execute the perl wrapper as a system call to a separate Perl script, you don’t need a separate CGI perl script. You can just do system calls from PHP in your site directly. Not a big difference but might help if PHP is more of your comfort zone for web stuff than Perl’s CGI

    OTOH, if the Perl script wrapper is a fairly obvious and simple set of API calls, and you feel comfortable with Perl CGI, a better soltrion is to port that command line Perl script into the Perl CGI script which uses the API internally, bypassing system calls.

    For high-volume stuff, removing system calls is a Big Win performance wise, plus allows for much better and easier error handling.

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