Description: This is an example used for executing remote scripts or just reading the content of a remote file. This example uses php to execute remote perl script. The variables can be passed using either a database or $_GET. (i.e. http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/perlcode.pl?variable=value) the returned result can be saved into a php variable. 

Code:

<?php
 
// Get a file into an array.  In this example 
//we'll go through HTTP to get
// the HTML source of a URL.
$lines = file('http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/perlcode.pl');
// Loop through our array, show HTML source 
//as HTML source; and line numbers too.
foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {
    echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " 
. htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";
}
?>
   

This one is useful if the script output is one line: 

<?php
// Another example, let's get a web page into a string.  
//See also file_get_contents().
 
$html=implode('', file('http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/perlcode.pl'));
?>