how to pass a php variable to a perl program

Ok i've done lots of searching on google and i can't seem to find my answer.

i have an html/php page that submits a string and stores it into a variable array via my php script.

I want to pass this array into my perl program via @ARGV, but i can't.

In perl i have also tried to set an empty array and set up a get option function but it won't pass through.

some sample examples would also be helpful as well.
Help please.

re: how to pass a php variable to a perl program

How do you invoke that Perl routine from PHP? Show some code (within code tags)

Ronald

re: how to pass a php variable to a perl program

from my php i used a "shell_exec(perlProgram.pl)"