Hi all, And thanks to David for his response re using php & perl together.
What made me work with php was it's ability to draw reusable page elements like the header, menu, footer from another html page from a fixed html page. Now I know that this can be done in perl when the pages are generated by a script, but my pages are fixed html to take advantage of meta tags etc plus completely different layouts required within the one function. So I was attemtping to use the function in php to call headers, footers etc from another html page so that I don't have to alter 150 odd pages each time I change one minor thing in the layout. So, I am not sure that it would be a great idea to call a subroutined directly from a fixed html page even if it can be done....so how else would I call my headers. footers etc using perl. Tis the question at the end of all of that :-) Thanks in advance. Cat