On 04/22/2011 05:33 PM, sono...@fannullone.us wrote:
> I've been working with an older Perl shopping cart script and the
placeholders it uses are only accessible on pages that are placed under
the cgi-bin directory,
Is there documentation for this script on the WWW? If so, what is the
URL? If not, please explain "placeholders" and how the script works.
I assume you have the source code for the script? If so, perhaps you
can modify it to work with pages in places other than the cgi-bin directory?
> Let me rephrase my question. I want to show pricing and other
dynamic information from my shopping cart on my static HTML pages
throughout my site. I know I can do it with PHP, but being that the
cart is written in Perl - and I really want to stick with Perl - I
thought there might be a way to show this info from my store with some
kind of a Perl templating system.
> Being that the info is in a MySQL db, I don't need to access the
cart, but I'd like to find a way to use Perl to insert this info on
those pages.
I'd say use the best tool for the job, regardless of what language the
shopping cart script is written in. That said, my brain scrambles when
I try to use two similar languages at the same time (e.g. Perl and PHP).
I do better using one language, and I prefer Perl.
If you know the schema for the shopping cart database, Perl can read the
data via the DBI and DBD::mysql modules. Putting the data into static
HTML pages depends upon your web server. I use Apache 2.2. Assuming an
unpriviledged name-based virtual hosting account, I'd try an Apache
rewrite rule in .htaccess that sends the request to a CGI script, that
in turn reads the page, reads the data, feeds them through a template
engine (say, HTML::Template), and sends the result.
I don't remember enough about Mason to suggest how to integrate Mason
with your existing script and static pages. I'd ask the question on the
mason-users mailing list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
E-commerce is a known killer app. Perhaps you should migrate your site
to an open-source e-commerce platform and configure/ brand it to meet
your needs? For example, Interchange:
http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev
HTH,
David
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