At 04:21 PM 8/8/01 -0600, Thomas Burkhardt wrote:
>Perl Gurus:
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there.
>Greetings!
>
>1) What bare bones code do I need in my perl/cgi script to produce an
>HTML page? I want to run this script merely to produce a page.
>Eventually, I will be
>querying a dB and producing links, but what are the basics? My serveral
>basic books on Perl and CGI do not seem to specifically address this.
All depends on what you need to go in that page. Already have a page
stored somewhere and just want to blat it out? Copy it to STDOUT. Want to
do parameter substitution on a template? There are a zillion template
modules; try "Writing CGI Applications with Perl" -- Kevin Meltzer, Brent
Michalski (Addison-Wesley) for more info. Want to do more complex stuff
involving HTML fragments in a database, maybe some XML? Some of those
templating modules can handle this.
>2) Technically, is the above not really CGI? I need to direct the
>output.html to a web server (to use SSIs), but I don't think I even need
>*.cgi (on a web
>server)and/or CGI.pm. Is such really just a Perl script?
Yes, and if the output is going through a web server, then it almost
certainly must be a CGI program otherwise how does the web server know when
to invoke it? But the definition of 'CGI program' actually requires very
little.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
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