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Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other [message #180618 is a reply to message #180603] Thu, 07 March 2013 06:37 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Cal Dershowitz is currently offline  Cal Dershowitz
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On 03/05/2013 05:08 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 3/5/2013 6:59 PM, Ben Morrow wrote:

>>>> Why on Earth would you want to do that? Seriously, I can't think of any
>>>> situation where mixing PHP and Perl is easier than just writing in Perl
>>>> in the first place.
>>>
>>> Other people would say the same about writing PHP instead of a mix.
>>
>> Yes, of course.
>>
>
> A long shot - maybe you have a package in one language you need to feed
> input to. But that input must first be processed by a package in the
> other language. Rather than rewrite everything, merge them together.

What I wanted to do that this article had mentioned was to be able to
call perl reliably either from php or from a bash script that
comprehends it all.
>
> Or, perhaps you need to build the data preprocessor, and aren't familiar
> with the language the package is written in.

I've chosen this rather arbitrary task just to see what I can do with
this syntax which is new to me, php, as opposed to what a person can do
with, perl, which I have previously used to give me a webpage.
>
> I agree it would be quite rare, but it's about the only reason I could
> think of people would need both languages. I'm sure there are more,
> though.

Can I use perl regex's or do I have to learn a whole 'nother idea of
what that is?
>
>>> However, there can be value in two programming languages in the same
>>> program. Just consider what kinds of data you can pass via the command
>>> line and what kinds you cannot pass that way (yes, there are text files,
>>> named pipes, and other equally ugly workarounds).
>>
>> The methods used by PHP::Interpreter are not really any less ugly. Until
>> you get to the point of being able to run the two languages on the same
>> VM with properly interworking data structures (such as Parrot is trying
>> to achieve, for instance) I don't see much point stuffing the two
>> languages into the same process and then just passing strings to eval
>> back and forth.
>>
>
> I doubt that they'll ever have internetworking data structures, though.
> Just not a need for it.

No, nothing like that complex.

[snip]

[OT]
> I wouldn't have bothered looking up when a Perl module was shipped, either.
>
> BTW - comp.lang.perl.misc added back since this is about both languages.
>

I'm not thrilled with being OT again, but I just can't get
PHP::Interpreter to install and don't know exactly why. I don't like to
be OT, but something that seems to work for others isn't for me now, and
it's not at the level of scripting languages.

I can ask very-flawed specific questions but need to wonder aloud why
php-config doesn't work, why files that are supposed to be there aren't,
and how I troubleshoot the basic function of it before I actually get
this topic off the ground.

What exactly do I have to do at this point to get a php-config that
works as far as PHP::Interpreter is concerned?

I've tried ten things that don't work.
--
Cal
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