Re: Becoming Disenheartened - Everyone talks about Python and says Perl is old news.

2004-09-28 Thread Drue Reeves
You know, I'm kinda going through a similar thing. I wrote a script to search for users in an LDAP directory and update an attribute at the same time. I decided to write it in Perl because it looked so easy. And, it was. Works like a champ. Being new to Perl, and this was my first script, I was

RE: calling Perl Script from JSP?

2004-09-22 Thread Drue Reeves
;perl" is the program that runs programs written in Perl, and "PERL" isn't a word. On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Drue Reeves wrote: > Why is it bad to mix JSP and Perl? They are just much different frameworks. Most Java systems I'm aware of (and I'll plead guilty to some igno

RE: calling Perl Script from JSP?

2004-09-21 Thread Drue Reeves
how do you call a PERL script from a web page (and pass parameters)? Thank you, Drue "NYIMI Jose (BMB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Drue Reeves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:49 AM > To: [EM

Two easy questions.

2004-09-20 Thread Drue Reeves
Truly newbie questions Why do some scripts have a CGI extension while other a .pl and still other a .plx? Does the .cgi extension give it some web characteristics? Is there a way to run my script without specifying "perl" before the script? In other words, I want to type c:\myscript.plx i

calling Perl Script from JSP?

2004-09-20 Thread Drue Reeves
Anyone know how to call a PERL Script from a JSP and pass parameters to the script? I have a JSP that will call PERL but, everytime we try to add a script nothing happens. Any ideas? Thanks, Drue

Newbie question

2004-08-02 Thread Drue Reeves
Sorry for the newbie question but, I'm having trouble using the Perldap module. I downloaded the binaries and I am trying to install them into ActiveState's latest version of Perl for Windows. I put the contents of blib/lib/Mozilla from the zip file in the Perl/lib directory (where the rest of the