Re: php like behavior for my perl CGI

2003-02-24 Thread Todd W
f'ups rearranged > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wadet]$ perl > > sub box { > > return(''); > > } > > print < > > > > > ${\box(5,10)} > > ${\box(7,10)} > > > > > > eot > > Ctrl-D > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > see: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wadet]$ perldoc perlref "Pete

RE: php like behavior for my perl CGI

2003-02-20 Thread fliptop
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 at 09:41, Peter Kappus opined: [snip] PK:Quite ingenious. While I'm sure I'll regret it later (and curse your good PK:name as I'm wishing I'd taken the time to learn Mason or HTML::Template) PK:this seems like a great quick fix for the time being. And it never hurts to PK:lea

RE: php like behavior for my perl CGI

2003-02-20 Thread Peter Kappus
IL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: php like behavior for my perl CGI Well, you can save yourself a bundle of keystrokes and use a templating system and cascading stylesheets, but heres a quick fix: [wadet@ecg-redhat wadet]$ perl sub box { return(''); } print < ${\box(5

Re: php like behavior for my perl CGI

2003-02-19 Thread Todd W
"Peter Kappus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > Thanks to all who have responded to my rather vague request. Indeed, I > should clarify a bit what I'm looking for. > > Because I'm extremely lazy, I'd like to use certain formatting shortcuts in >

RE: php like behavior for my perl CGI

2003-02-17 Thread Phil Fickas
-Phil -Original Message- From: Peter Kappus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: php like behavior for my perl CGI Thanks to all who have responded to my rather vague request. Indeed, I should clarify a bit what I'm l

RE: php like behavior for my perl CGI

2003-02-17 Thread fliptop
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 at 10:26, Peter Kappus opined: [snip] PK:which would create and send the image tag for me. PK:I'd like, in perl, to do the following: PK: PK:print< PK: PK: PK: PK: PK:eob PK: PK:Ideally, I would overload the print function so that it would search for PK:stat

RE: php like behavior for my perl CGI

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Kappus
Thanks to all who have responded to my rather vague request. Indeed, I should clarify a bit what I'm looking for. Because I'm extremely lazy, I'd like to use certain formatting shortcuts in my HTML. In a given document, I might have 15 different spacer gifs of different sizes to aid in precise f

Re: php like behavior for my perl CGI...and DBI followup

2003-02-15 Thread drieux
On Friday, Feb 14, 2003, at 19:02 US/Pacific, Peter Kappus wrote: [..] In PHP this can be streamlined by creating a function which prints out your image tag for your and accepts the height and width as parameters. like so: function spacer($y,$x){ ?> } [..] i'd like to be able to use the "pr

php like behavior for my perl CGI...and DBI followup

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Kappus
Thanks to Rob for his Class::DBI suggestion earlier. Looks like what I needed was simply: my %hash; return $sth->fetchall_arrayref(\%hash); to return an array of hashes... As I'm continuing with my latest project, I'm finding myself wishing I could do some PHP type things...spec