--- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 01:38:44 -0800 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [vox-tech] reading files into a web page > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > suppose i have a web page http://www.dirac.org/pcgm/bulletinboard: > > > <HTML> > <HEAD><TITLE>Bulletin Board</TITLE></HEAD> > <BODY> > > </BODY> > </HTML> > > > and i'd like to put the contents of some file in the body, formatted as > verbatim text (say, between pre tags). i'd like to do something like: > > > <HTML> > <HEAD><TITLE>Bulletin Board</TITLE></HEAD> > <BODY> > <PRE> > `cat /www/pcgm/bulletins` > </PRE> > </BODY> > </HTML> > > how can i do this? i *think* php can do this, but i don't know a lick > of php. can someone give me explicit instructions on how to do this > sort of thing? > > if it makes a difference, i'm putting a form on the same page that adds > text to /www/pcgm/bulletins. > > pete
This can be quite easily done using CGIs - if you are going to use perl, you can just as easily use bash or csh to do the same thing. #!/bin/bash cat << ENDOFHEADER <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Bulletin Board</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <PRE> ENDOFHEADER cat /www/pcgm/bulletins cat << ENDOFFOOTER </PRE> </BODY> </HTML> ENDOFFOOTER or #!/bin/bash echo '<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Bulletin Board</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <PRE>' cat /www/pcgm/bulletins echo '</PRE> </BODY> </HTML>' _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
