Mark, It seems like you have a hammer, and you really want this to be a nail. It just isn't. It's more like a paper clip.
Perl and PHP are both server side scripting languages, which means they run on the server. If you use them, you should pick one because they serve the same purpose. You don't need either of them to create dynamic dropdown boxes. In fact, you don't want to use either of them in this case. If you use them, then you need to refresh the page (or a portion of it). You don't want to send request like that over the network, then process it by a server, return the response back over the network, and then render it in the browser. This isn't the best code design for things that are updating frequently. You want them to be fast and responsive. In order to do that, you really want to run them on the computer that already has the page loaded in memory. Memory which is much faster than an internet connection and two separate machines processing it. I would suggest building the dynamic boxes in javascript (which runs client side). It has a different purpose than PHP or perl and compliments either of them nicely. Matt ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark Haney <ma...@abemblem.com> > To: beginners@perl.org > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:19 PM > Subject: Re: PERL CGI, HTML and PHP > > > Well, I kind of agree with you. It's still a scripting language. Regardless > of its function. (At least in my mind.) > > Still, despite all this, I'm not really any closer to a solution than I was > when I sent the OP. I'm looking at the Template-Toolkit, and that might be > a long term solution, but the dearth of 'beginner-style' documentation > for it makes me think there's a fairly large learning curve with it, and > frankly, if that's the case, I might actually stick with the devil I know. > > > -- > Mark Haney > Software Developer/Consultant > AB Emblem > ma...@abemblem.com > Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
