Re: Creating a CGI menu

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Bergeron
For this I would consider using SSI. That way you only have to make your changes in the "config" files once for the whole site. Using SSI: http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl Lots of different ideas here. Mark Bergeron' -Original Message- From: "Gerry Jones"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CGI

Re: Creating a CGI menu

2001-12-12 Thread Curtis Poe
--- Gerry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to create a menu/navigational section for a website I plan on > building, and I would like to know if there are any easy-to-use modules I > could use, or if there's another way. My website will have many levels and I > don't fancy copying, pas

Re: Creating a CGI menu

2001-12-12 Thread Gerry Jones
Thanks for the tips guys. Francesco: where in the book did you find the code you adapted? I've got the book (I had a look before posting), but short of scanning every page, I couldn't find it. Brett: I now know next to nothing about SSI's, which is more than I knew before reading your post.

Re: Creating a CGI menu

2001-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:05 PM 12/12/01 +, Gerry Jones wrote: >I want to create a menu/navigational section for a website I plan on >building, and I would like to know if there are any easy-to-use modules I >could use, or if there's another way. I wrote a web basing content management tool to do this called SIM

Re: Creating a CGI menu

2001-12-12 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
If you look at O'Reilly's cgi programming with perl book there is a mechanism there which can be modified to do exactly what you want. The following was adapted from it : # initialise subject listings one section per subdirectory under # ../data opendir ( DIR, "../data" ) or die "Cannot open s

Re: Creating a CGI menu

2001-12-12 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Gerry Jones wrote: > I want to create a menu/navigational section for a website I plan on > building, and I would like to know if there are any easy-to-use modules I > could use, or if there's another way. My website will have many levels and I > don't fancy copying, pasting