Integrating CGI with PHP...

[JohnnyT]

I have recently discovered the benefits of programming PHP scripts on my website to allow me to incorporate an SQL database. I have been used to programming Perl. My question is this - Is there a way of incorporating the two into one script?
How would you do this? Can you run .php pages in the cgi-bin and then require cgi scripts within them?
Sorry if this is a bit of a numpty question but answers will be appreciated.

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[danielhozac]

If you are trying to include a CGI scripts output in your PHP scripts, you could use the virtual function. For example virtual("/cgi-bin/script.pl" would include the output of script.pl.

NOTE: This only works on Apache servers. //Daniel

 

[JohnnyT]

Daniel

Thanks for that mate. I've tried it and it works! Nice one.

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