Use HTML::Templates and a CGI script to generate the content of your table cell.
Your table cell would include merely <DEFANG TMPL_VAR NAME="NEWS"> and your perl code would be something of hte sort of: my $news = (sql query code goes here...); my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename => "$Template_Dir/$tmpl_file", die_on_bad_params => 0, ); $template->param(NEWS => $news); ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ling F. Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 22 21 Subject: Re: Re: dynamic update part of a table > > well if you want this to 'auto update' at the > > browser, you will want to look at how to include > > and 'expire' in the HTTP header. This will oblige > > the browser to do a 'refresh'... At which point > > your cgi will need to know how to create a new > > page - and if that means that one has to put > > new stuff in the long cell, so be it. > > I think you misunderstood my problem. Say I have a > file of nicely formated database. I want to display > this file on an HTML table cell. But I don't want to > work with the HTML everytime I update this database. > I want the CONTENT of that cell to be generated from > the file using perl or whatever. > > more detail: > I have a file of (each line being) quotes. I want to > make a quote of the day webpage, which randomly pick a > quote and display it in a table cell. but I don't want > to dynamically generate the REST of the page which is > static. Is there a way I can put some perl code in an > HTML tags? > like: > > <td><!--some call to a perl cgi program that will > generate the content of this cell...--></td> > > or any otherway to do what I proposed? > > Thank yoU! > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > -- > 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]
