Sometime on Sep 20, Sam Tregar assembled some asciibets to say:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Rustagi, Dhiraj wrote:
>
> > Thanks.. But then I have to use a CGI file to output this template file. Is
> > that right? So I will have to use SSI directive to execute a CGI program
> > which will then load this template.
>
> HTML::Template is generally used through CGI, yes.
Although I often run it through a cron - static files are, after all,
faster to serve. I also generate scheduled emails through the cron
using H::T.
To answer the OP's question, I often do use HTML::Template through CGI
in association with SSI. I have code similar to this:
<!--#set expr="TITLE" value="Page Title" -->
<!--#include virtual=".header.shtml" -->
<table blah...>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="..">
<!--#include virtual=".left-menu.shtml" -->
</td>
<td width="~..">
<!--#set expr="VAR1" value="val1" -->
<!--#set expr="VAR2" value="val2" -->
<!--#set expr="VAR3" value="val3" -->
<!--#exec cmd="perl-with-H-T" -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--#include virtual=".footer.shtml" -->
Of course, VAR1, VAR2 and VAR3 are available to perl-with-H-T through
$ENV{'VAR1'}, $ENV{'VAR2'} and $ENV{'VAR3'}
voila, I've passed arguments to an included file, albeit not
conventionally. I could also pass arguments to the perl program as
command line params, or a query string (if I use cgi instead of cmd),
but then I'd have to write the values directly instead of using VAR1,
VAR2...
Also, if you notice, .header.shtml uses $TITLE which is defined in each
file that includes it.
Philip
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