PHP3 is an embedded language with a file...
e.g.
index.php3
<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>
If you want to see the status of PHP3
phpinfo.php3
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
To further thicken the plot:
www.php.net
and plenty of tutorials:
www.php.net/links.php3
It should be easy for you to convert the Perl script into a PHP3 script, just takes a bit of Zen...
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--Perl uses 10 times more resources to fork/compile/execute, than a comparable PHP3 script--
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