In article <007501c222c5$2014f020$2f7e3393@TB447CCO3>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1lt John W. Holmes) wrote:
> > I have a perl script that outputs HTML data. How would I do to execute
> > that script from within a php-script and have it's output parsed by
> > -apache-.
> >
> > I'm not talking about eval(), but rather have apache parse it to
> > invoke php for whatever code I output. Let's say the perl script
> > outputs:
> >
> > <span class="a">The year is <? print date("Y"); ?></span>
> >
> > Now, if I use system() or shell_exec(), the output is just printed to
> > the page and whatever php code there is is ignored.
> >
> > Is there ANY way to have the output parsed to make the above say "The
> > year is 2002"?
> Look into exec() or virtual().
Neither returns apache-parsed output, especially not exec()
> If the script is run over the web, you can just do a
> fopen("http://www.example.com/script.php";); and read the result. You can
> do the same for any other script that's run through the web b/c you'll
> receive it's parsed output, not the source.
But apache won't parse CGI-scripts for php syntax, will they? And that
seems like a bad work-around.
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