Is there a better way? (perl in PHP)

[Mr. M.J. Lush]

Is there a better way of doing this?

I want to take in a large amount of text/data, process it with a perl script
then print the results to the browser

<?php
$tmpfname = tempnam ("/tmp", "FOO");
$fp = fopen($tmpfname, "w");
fwrite($fp, $text_in);
fclose($fp);
if (isset($alias)) {
$file = `perl /home/httpd/cgi-bin/perl_script.pl $tmpfname`;
unlink($tmpfname);
print"$file";
?>

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Michael
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