-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Jetter wrote: > On Monday 15 December 2008 3:50:24 am Adam Jimerson wrote: >> Dermot Paikkos wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> >>>>> http://www.template-toolkit.org/ >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>> Looking at the website and the documentation, still reading through >>> it, >>> >>>> I'm still not sure how to mix this with my CGI scripts to make them >>>> look >>>> like the rest of the site even though Konqueror supports the <object> >>>> tag, which I would think would be the last browser to support it. It >>>> may just be that I'm new to CGI so I'm having to take what I am >>>> learning >>>> and throw it out the window? >>> I am not sure TT is what you want. >>> >>> If you want to run perl code from within a html tags that's not possible >>> as far as I know. You could use Greg's suggestion of >>> http://perl.apache.org/embperl/ or use AJAX to call your perl cgi >>> scripts. But if you insist that you want to put you code in the page >>> then you really want ?php >>> >>> Dp. >> I'm not trying to put perl code into the page, they way I have it now is >> I have the page generated by my CGI script inside another page that is >> using my CSS. I've tried to have my CGI script directly handle my CSS >> but it didn't work due to its limited support for CSS. So now I'm >> trying to find a better way to make my CGI script look like the rest of >> my site, I'm guessing this is what Template Toolkit if I can figure out >> how to do it, or if my solution is the best. > > if you decide to go with a template system , a good simple one I use quite > > a lot is the module HTML::Template . this allows you to have separate html > template pages with place holder tags that your CGI script would process > and then output to the calling browser. You could then just take your > regular html page with your css stuff applied and replace those bits that > have to have a calculation or other function with a template var. > > you then can maintain the look of your static pages with your dynamically > generated pages . > > > Greg >
Correct me if I am wrong but these template systems seem to only handle output from the CGI script, which would be nice if my scripts only handled output but they also need user input. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklHALEACgkQRMKiLy/EUZTeSwCfU+LlVieDGdHCRKUL+ctSGDF7 0K4AoKwU12fat1aYvympNaDk+T4PkmK0 =g0pf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
