On 04/26/2012 07:22 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
Again, you haven't described why Perl can't create the same HTML the PHP does.
Obviously, I didn't explain myself quite well enough. Let me try again.
I've got a web app I'm building for the company I work for. It was
initially started by an intern in pure perl and was more or less nothing
but some CGI to dump data into a DB and pull data out of that DB. The
perl code generated basic HTML tables and output and nothing else.
Keep in mind here that I've used perl quite a bit, but /never/ in the
context of actually building a website. Not from the ground up. I have
built them in C#, ASP, and PHP, so I'm no n00b to web design. Just when
using perl.
I found, that with researching how to do things in perl (like dynamic
dropdown boxes) I was having trouble finding resources that worked for
me. At that point, I moved to PHP since I knew how to do things with it.
That brings me to my problem. I have these reports already built in
perl, and all I want is something like this:
PHP/HTML form -> PERL CGI -> PHP/HTML
Essentially I want perl to do the grunt work and output it to my PHP
framework. The only option I found that works (mostly) is to output the
report into a file and then include it in the PHP code. The only issue
there is that I can't inject PHP code into the CGI like I do with
straight HTML (like print "<table></table>").
I thought this would have been a fairly simple question to ask, like
I've overlooked the obvious and needed it pointed out. Ah well.
At this point, I have no problem at all with ripping out what PHP I've
done for straight up perl if I can find the resources that can walk me
through the design and framework setup. I noticed replies about perl
templates and I'll look into them now.
My apologies for sounding like a troll. It was a question I thought had
a quick answer. You live and learn.
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