How do I run a perl script?

Hi Forum!

Would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction regarding how to execute scripts.

I’ve tried to call a Perl script in a form (action="myscript.pl") and it works fine if I save the file physically in the old fashioned way on the server but if I create a MODx document with an alias "myscript.pl" and save it using no template (blank), the entire text of the perl code is printed - not executed.

Here’s the simple test script I’m using:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Message text here\n";
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I’ve tried different document types (text/javascript, text/html, text/plain) but no luck. I’ve also tried to save the script as a snippet but then I can’t figure out how to call it (and execute it) in the "form action" statement (I tried both: form action="[[snippet]]" and form action=[[snippet]] but that doesn’t seem to be the way to do it.

Is there another way of doing it? I suppose I can always upload the "real" perl files to the server but it would be neater to have them in MODx somehow - as documents, chunks or snippets but I don’t really understand how to get them executed.

http://il.php.net/passthru

You should be able to call the passthru() function from a snippet and then return whatever your perl script returns to the php script as usual.

Hi,
Thank you very much for that tip, I’ll try that when I get some time over soon. I’ve settled for the "physical" perl files for now but I would like to remove them and make it all database driven, that would feel much "neater".

Appreciate the fast help in this forum! You’re good!