[poulh]

Hi,
I would like to have a family web site on my old imac running osx. there won't be a lot of traffic so no need for a new computer.

I am a computer programmer, but only program in C++ and Java.

I would like to have some perl scripts on my website to make it a bit more interactive.

I have changed permissions on the scripts so that i can see there output thru a web brower by typing something like this: http://localhost/path_to whereever/cgi-bin/my_perl_script.pl

This works great! However I once saw a page where I could put a tag in the html code that would call the perl script and replace the tag with the output of the script. This is what I want to do, but can't remember what I should put in the html.

I also see on this page that the url is followed by a "?" the a bunch of data=value strings. how do i pass these into the perl script?

thanks for your help.

Poul

[larkost]

First off, if you want to embed the results from a script inside html there are two ways of doing it: using a server side include where the server "includes" the information in the file it gives to the client, and using frames or iframes (or layers for older versions of netscape). The former is what you almost definitely want. Here is a link the the Apache manual page on it:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html

As to using form data, that you can do in a number of ways, but the easiest would be to use CGI.pm. I think that the module is included with the standard install of MacOS X, but am not sure anymore. In any case the manual is in the download with is avalible here:

http://cpan.org/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/CGI.pm-2.77.tar.gz

Quick couple pieces of advice:

Buy O'Reilly's "Learning Perl" it is the classic book. Buy lots of O'Reilly books!

Learn PHP. The manual is avalible on their site at: http://php.apache.org

[poulh]

Thanks larkost, this is exactly what i needed!