Calling A Perl Function From PHP

[DVD Plaza]

I have a lot of scripts I have written in Perl, some of which I will naturally redo in PHP but some I can't just yet. To that end I'll be needing to call up some Perl routines via PHP, for example when parsing VB headers and footers at PHP code I need that to fire up a Perl header routine.

How can that be done?

[fastforward]

I used the passthru command. like this:
passthru("perl /www/britishexpats/cgi-bin/newubbuser.cgi $uid $passwd");
Obviously this was before I got vB :)

[Vinay]

you should be able to getaway with virtual() firstly, and since hte script is a 755 executable, you should be able to use exec() also