-----Original Message----- From: JupiterHost.Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 2:17 PM To: John Pretti Cc: 'Wiggins d Anconia'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CGI.pm help
>>Hi all, >> >>I have written an upload script using CGI.pm and it works perfect > > however it > >>looks bland. I would like ot understand how to make it look a lot nicer, >>either continuing down the CGI.pm path or using some other method. Any >>ideas? >> > > >>>What looks bland? Pretty much everything dealing with the look of >>>anything related to CGI is going to be handled by the HTML that you send >>>back as the response. Generally this is best handled with a combination >>>of HTML+CSS. > > >>>http://danconia.org > > > I am using CGI.pm to generate my HTML for me. For example here is a snippet > of my code: > > print $q->header, > $q->start_html('Merlin Control Center'), > $q->img({-src=>'/merlin/images/head.gif'}), > $q->br, > $q->start_multipart_form, > $q->filefield('file'), > $q->br, > $q->submit('Upload'), > $q->end_form, > $q->end_html; > > As you can see that prints a pretty simple page. What I am after is how can > I use CGI.pm to only print the filefield and use normal HTML to create the > framework around it, without making the code a disaster area? >>This is what I like to do, use a header and footer file (or variabel at >>least) That way you can have the css/html be super fancy nice looking. >>use FIle::Slurp; >>print $q->header(); >>print read_file('../htmltop.html'); >># generate content here >>>print read_file('../htmlbot.html'); >>HTH >>Lee.M - JupiterHost.Net Man!!!! That is super slick. Thanks very much that is exactly what I am looking for. Cheers, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
