PERL CGI Beginners

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Werner Otto

2004-05-24, 8:30 am

Hi there,

How to I include or call another cgi script from a current one. I want to
create say a header script that I just want to include it when I want to.
What does the syntax look like?

Regards
Otto

Jan Eden

2004-05-24, 9:30 am

Hi Werner,

Werner Otto wrote on 24.05.2004:

>Hi there,
>
>How to I include or call another cgi script from a current one. I want to=
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>create say a header script that I just want to include it when I want to.=
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>What does the syntax look like?
>
>Regards
>Otto
>

How about HTML::Template? It was written for exactly that purpose.

- Jan
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There's no place like ~/

Bill Jones

2004-05-24, 5:30 pm

--- Werner Otto <wot@dcs.kcl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> How to I include or call another cgi script from a current one.

> What does the syntax look like?

Don't do it that way; See perldoc require

That is what I would recommend - otherwise you would need to have the
"called" cgi call your original script again -- OR, you can simply do
this (as an example only and not called as a cgi - there isn't any need
to do it that way) --

if (condition) {
# Rebuild each Categories index.html file...
chdir("/HR/AP");
system("/rt/apache2/cgi/CreateIndexes.pl AP > /HR/AP/index.html");
}

If you *must* try it as a cgi, then use the HTTP Location header like
this:

print "Location
/cgi/some.cgi?SomeParams=SomeData&someotherParams=SomeotherData\n\n";
exit;

You have to exit the current CGI as there is no way to get back to it -
the WWW is stateless in this regard. That is why I strongly recommend
doing what you are attempting in one stroke.

(PS - What Jan suggested really is the best way IMHO.)
HTH/Bill

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