On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:23 -0400, Jesse Erlbaum wrote: > This is for primarily static web sites which are managed by a CMS. The > CMS publishes out pages which would contain HTML + various bits of code > to generate possibly navigation and semi-interactive bits of the page. > (Imagine a list of the users currently logged into the site or a > database query on the 5 products most relevant to the current page, for > example.)
One way that I've done this kind of thing in the past is to really use SSI and call a mod_perl handler or Registry script with it. In other words, you write a "list users logged in" thing in CGI::Application as usual and then call it like this from a page: <!--#include virtual="/perl/users?rm=list&max=5" --> That just makes an Apache subrequest and is very efficient. If what you want is a bunch of little "portlet" widgets, this can be a good way to do it. - Perrin
