Posted by Erwin Moller on 08/29/06 08:53

Binod Pant wrote:

> Does any one know of a way to call MATLAB from PHP/Perl? I found the Perl
> module Math:MATLAB , but it seems not to work on Windows, and it's not
> easy to install and use.
> This would enable one to use MATLAB to generate live web content...
>
> BP

Hi Binod,

I do not know of a (working) interface, but maybe a few are out there.
I solved this a few year back in the poor mans way: Via files.
(That was not PHP, but C, but the approach is the same.)

Let PHP write a file with instructions/data/whatever, and let Matlab read
it, do its stuff, and write an output file with results.

So:
1) PHP writes a file containing instructions/data.

2) PHP calls Matlab (via functions like passthru() or something similar)
Here is an overview of such functions:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php

3) PHP reads Matlabs outputfile and proceeds.

It is not the fastest way to include Matlabs functionality, but it gets the
job done.

Just my 2 cent...

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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