PHP and Perl in One Script?

gbulmash asks: "Recently, I began working on a graphics project and wanted to use ImageMagick. As a PHP coder, I figured I'd use MagickWand for PHP. But after some investigation, I decided that an alpha at 0.1.8 with sparse documentation just wasn't going to be good enough for production use. I decided that PerlMagick would be a much better API, but I didn't want to code the whole project in Perl. In the end, I found a cool package for embedding Perl code in PHP scripts (with an article on its use) and it went to a 1.0.0 release, earlier this year. I think I've found my answer, but before I make a final decision and go ahead with it, I thought I'd ask the knowledgeable Slashdot crowd: Is there a better way of interfacing Perl with PHP so you can get the best of both worlds?" So you've got Perl in your PHP, is there a way to do PHP in your Perl?

Comments

A bit extreme

[Bogtha]

Why didn't you use the ImageMagick extension in PECL? There's plenty of image processing options with PHP, just because MagickWand didn't work out for you, that doesn't mean you have to concoct a monstrous hybrid of PHPerl.

Re:If you use PHP....

[drinkypoo]

Do most hosting providers provide the software necessary to embed perl in php? If not, this is a non-conversation. Mine doesn't even give me a compiler, I have to beg if I want anything (or compile a static binary somewhere else.) To be fair, they were plenty responsive the one time I asked for anything.