Posted by Eli on 04/08/05 08:05

Hi,

It seems more like a problem in Perl than PHP.. so sorry if this is
asked in the wrong list, but I believe there are also Perl gurus among
the list members.. ;)

I have a perl script which from it I externally execute a PHP script
with some parameters.
When running the perl program throu unix shell, then perl executes the
PHP program as expected, and returns its output.
When running the perl program throu Apache (using cgi-bin on a browser),
then perl opens the PHP file for reading and doesn't execute the PHP
script, and returns the PHP code of the script.

The Perl line trying to execute the PHP script is:

open (PIPE,"./my_prog.php $arg1 $arg2 |");
while (<PIPE>)
$res=$res.$_;
print "got:\n",$res;

Does anyone have any clue why Perl behaves differently on different
enviorments?
OR: does anyone have a suggestion for a stable solution?

-thanks, Eli

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