Question

I want to call a perl script as an external program in a PHP script, once the PHP script finished its run, it should send back the output to a html page. I tried using exec command to call the perl script but it dint work out. please help with this simple perl script, so that i can try using the same !

Perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -s

$var1 = 'high';

print $var1;

Thanks ahead of time !!

Answer 1

I would suggest trying

exec ('path_to_your_script')

This will work for any shell executable or command call, whenever you want to execute it from your PHP script.