PHP ↔ Perl interface or bindings

Question

What PHP ↔ Perl interface or bindings do you recommend?

I need to be able to run Perl functions located in a Perl file from a PHP script and get the return values.

I've already found the PECL "perl" package but I'm not sure how reliable it is since the last Subversion activity was ~12 months ago.

I've also found the Perl module PHP::Interpreter that is supposed to work both ways according to an almost 3 year old tutorial, Integrating PHP and Perl.

I would really appreciate it if you can recommend (or not) either of those 2 options or if you've got a better option that I haven't seen yet.

Answer 1

Never used any of those, but they look interesting..

Take a look at Gearman as well.. more overhead in systems like these but you get other cool stuff :) Guess it depends on your needs ..

Answer 2

Your best bet would probably be Thrift. It connects those languages (and a lot more) between each other. The only downside is requiring a network server to run and receive those requests on either side.