This is probably easier than you'd imagine. Use exec() to run your perl script and return true or false as output to stdout from perl. There's a bunch of good information about this, with some useful user comments here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php .steve ---------------------------------- WapWarp - http://wapwarp.com Wap-Dev - http://www.wap-dev.net Cookstour - http://cookstour.org ---------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Tammy Rudotski [mailto:aneemal555 at hotmail.com] > Sent: den 27 juli 2001 11:03 > Subject: [thelist] PHP/Perl: How do they talk? >