[solved] Executing PHP within Perl served pages

[dougconran]

Hi,

I'm using Litespeed v4.1.1 standard edition, primarily to serve pages generated by Perl scripts.

I have PHP set up to serve some pages generated by Wordpress which uses PHP.

I want to be able to use one (or more) of the Wordpress routines within my Perl generated scripts and cannot work out how to achieve this.

Just embedding <?php ... ?> within the Perl generated pages does not work because they have a .pl extension and so do not connect to the php intepreter. If I change the perl scripts to have a .php extension then, of course, the Perl interpreter does not pick them up.

How can I do what I want to do?

TIA

Doug

[webizen]

You can try PHP::Interpreter CPAN module in your perl script to call PHP script/function in this case.

More details can be found at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9282

[dougconran]

Thanks for the pointer. At the moment, though, I'm having problems compiling the module - I get an error during the make process but no clue as to why it is in error.

In the absence of PHP::Interpreter is there anything else I can do?

Rgds

Doug

[webizen]

You can try call wp URL (php script) from perl script and parse the output (if any) like in http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12843. the point is that you have to it at the application level.

[dougconran]

Many thanks for the second suggestion. That is what I did and it works fine.

Rgds

Doug