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

[Urivan Flores]

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:47:03 -0700, Joel Fentin wrote
> 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.

Joe,

1. You can use wget/curl to load the url:
  wget 'http://blablabla'

 (don't forget the single quotes around the URL)

2. Use LWP:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;

my $data = get('http://blablabla/yourscript.php?yadda') or
     die 'Unable to get page';

Regards,

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Urivan Flores-Saaib
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