PHP front end triggering async perl scripts

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

I've got a need to fire off a background perl script from PHP in apache.

I've got as part of my web site a page used to upload and process data from 
3rd parties, most of which I can process within the script iteself.

However, I now have to upload an excel spreadsheet in xml format that is 
approx 11MB in size and using it to do quite a bit of SQL work.

The idea is that I write the code in perl and then after PHP has completed the 
file upload, call the perl in the background passing the filename.

Has anyone got any advice or gochas I should know about?

Gary
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