John: The beauty of Apache::ASP is that it is all written in "perl". I often implement the off-line functionality that you describe through a "cron" job and a perl script (or a makefile.) See the LWP library (to pull data from other web sites,) the DBI library (to pull data from local data bases,) and perhaps the CGI library (to create your HTML outputs.)
If you want to share code between your CRON scripts and your Apache::ASP applications, then you can create your own perl modules (.pm files.) Then, either your perl scripts or Apache::ASP applications can "use mymodule;" and access the same perl subs. JL > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Brat Wizard > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 7:26 AM > To: ASP Mailing List > Subject: Using Apache::ASP with offline scripts- HOW??? > > > > > Howdy- > > I'm wondering if there is a neat and clever way to utilize the > functionality of > Apache::ASP in an offline capacity... > > This isn't as hair-brained a request as it might seem-- I am attempting to > create a background processor script to dig through a database and send > html-formatted email to appropriate folks. So it is an > html-related thing, its > just that apache isn't involved ;) > > I would very much like it if I could "think" in Apache::ASP style > as I write my > background processes as they are much more html than they are > anything else- > they just happen to take place offline and are scheduled by cron. > > Is this possible?? > > Thanks > > John Whitten > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
