[San-Diego-pm] Using a PHP script as a function

[Joel Fentin]

I have a perl program and I am trying to use a PHP script as a 
function. That is to say that my perl program passes data to it 
and it returns data. I have not been able to get it to run, let 
alone return data.

If you take:
http://calscape.com/dev/plant_editor/getPlantList.php?address=14295+recuerdo&city=del+mar&state=ca&zipcode=92014&native_status=native
and put it in Firefox, it returns data which is displayed.

First I tried 20 variations of:
my $cmd = 'php 
../dev/plant_editor/getPlantList.php?address=14295%20recuerdo&city=del%20mar&state=ca&zipcode=92014&native_status=native';
my $Stuff = `$cmd`;
die "|$Stuff|";

It not only doesn't return data, but it doesn't seem to run the PHP.

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I also tried:
my $xxx = 
system('http://calscape.com/dev/plant_editor/getPlantList.php?address=14295+recuerdo&city=del+mar&state=ca&zipcode=92014&native_status=native');
die "|$xxx|";

just to see if I could get it to run. I could not.

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I also tried:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
open(XXX,"http://calscape.com/dev/plant_editor/getPlantList.php?address=14295+recuerdo&city=del+mar&state=ca&zipcode=92014&native_status=native 
|");
while(<XXX>){print}
close(XXX);

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I've run out of ideas and nothing I Googled seemed to help.
Suggestions please.



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