[pmwiki-users] Including Perl SSI

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:37:34PM +1200, Simon wrote:
> I am converting an existing web site (quite successfully) to PmWiki,
> but it uses some perl scripts (called via SSI) to carry out a few 
> display functions.
> 
> While I'd like to rewrite them in PHP (and then ask the same following 
> question)
> my time, and familiarity with PmWiki and PHP don't allow this.
> 
> Is there a way I can still call/access the perl scripts from PmWiki?
> I'd appreciate a pointer to any existing documentation,
> I have done a brief search of this mailing list and the wiki site to no 
> avail.

Look at PHP's system(), shell_exec(), and proc_open() functions
for ways to call the perl program from PHP.

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