Favorite Perl CGI Framework for Web Site Development?

2005-02-11 Thread Siegfried Heintze
I notice there are a lot of frameworks out there for .NET (eg, .NETNUK), PHP, and Java (eg AppFuse) programmers. These are sets of files that form a typical starter site (or skeleton) that have the basic common features for a web site: (1) cookie/password authentication authorization, send email

Re: Favorite Perl CGI Framework for Web Site Development?

2005-02-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I notice there are a lot of frameworks out there for .NET (eg, .NETNUK), PHP, and Java (eg AppFuse) programmers. These are sets of files that form a typical starter site (or skeleton) that have the basic common features for a web site: (1)

Generating a hierarchy path

2005-02-11 Thread Jan Eden
Hi, my database is organized such that every page has a hierarchical superior page (mother). When displaying a page, a little drop-down menu should be displayed with all the mother, grandmothers etc. until the loop hits a page of the root type (and unless the page itself is a root page). I

Re: Favorite Perl CGI Framework for Web Site Development?

2005-02-11 Thread Ovid
--- Siegfried Heintze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any such frameworks for perl cgi? I googled for perl cgi framework but could not find any matches. Hi Siegfried, First, it's important to consider whether or not you want a framework. Sometimes they bind you to a particular set of

Re: Generating a hierarchy path

2005-02-11 Thread Ovid
Hi Jan, Apologies in advance if any of this seems too pedantic. What you are essentially looking for is SQL capable of handling tree structures so you can pull this data in a single fetch. You can read about this in Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties or (more specifically) Joe Celko's Trees and

RE: Favorite Perl CGI Framework for Web Site Development?

2005-02-11 Thread Stokes, John
I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but WebGUI by PlainBlack (www.plainblack.com) looks like an option. -John -Original Message- From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2/11/2005 8:15 AM To: Siegfried Heintze Cc: Perl Beginners - CGI List

Re: Favorite Perl CGI Framework for Web Site Development?

2005-02-11 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Chris Devers wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote: I notice there are a lot of frameworks out there for .NET (eg, .NETNUK), PHP, and Java (eg AppFuse) programmers. These are sets of files that form a typical starter site (or skeleton) that have the basic common features for a web

Re: Favorite Perl CGI Framework for Web Site Development?

2005-02-11 Thread Dwalu Z. Khasu
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Chris Devers wrote: =On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Siegfried Heintze wrote: = = I notice there are a lot of frameworks out there for .NET (eg, .NETNUK), = PHP, and Java (eg AppFuse) programmers. These are sets of files that form a = typical starter site (or skeleton) that have the

Re: Regex not working as expected when doing multiple checks and updates

2005-02-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: Here is a watered down version, but unclear what I am missing. You should be able to cut and past. It is self contained and I am running on XP Pro, using AS 5.8.4. What am I trying to do? Well I have to implement a new setup. So I pull the

Re: Changing the path in @INC

2005-02-11 Thread Andrew Black
Boysenberry Payne wrote: I know how to add to the perl path, but how do you take away. I have the fink /sw/ path included in the @INC array, and I want to be able to temporarily remove them, or at least put them at the end. Is there a way to set it up so that it's semi permanent? I would ask how

CGI/DBI - Can anyone work out why this fails

2005-02-11 Thread mike
I have the following code $cat1; if ($cat1){ my $cat1=%$category%; } else { $cat1=$category; } $row=$dbh-prepare(SELECT contact_id,first_name,last_name,organisation FROM tb_contacts WHERE (organisation ILIKE ? OR last_name ILIKE ?) OR contact_id = ?); $cat1; print $cat1;

How to create a blank text file on win2k

2005-02-11 Thread Mark Panasci
I'm using active state perl on win2k box, and need the script to create zero byte length text files, like the touch command does in Unix. I've been searching around for a couple of days now and haven't found anything. Surely there's an easy way to do this? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: IS there any way to get rthe content of the file

2005-02-11 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi, You can do: local $/; open(IN, $file) || die Can't read $file - $!; my $content = IN; close IN; Teddy - Original Message - From: Anish Kumar K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: beginners perl beginners@perl.org Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:10 AM Subject: IS there any way to get rthe

Re: How to create a blank text file on win2k

2005-02-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Mark Panasci wrote: I'm using active state perl on win2k box, and need the script to create zero byte length text files, like the touch command does in Unix. I've been searching around for a couple of days now and haven't found anything. Surely there's an easy way to do this? Thanks! Just open

RE: How to create a blank text file on win2k

2005-02-11 Thread Laurent Coudeur
open file to create it then close open (FILE,filename); close (FILE); should do the trick Regards. Laurent. -Original Message- From: Mark Panasci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 February 2005 05:55 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: How to create a blank text file on win2k I'm using

Re: uninstalling module

2005-02-11 Thread Randy W. Sims
Martin Mrazek wrote: Hello, I have installed PDL module for perl, but something went wrong and I need to reinstall it. Shall I remove the module first and then install again? How to remove it? It depends on how it was installed. Normally, from the directory of the distribution (./PDL): perl

how to share DB connection

2005-02-11 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Hi, I have script: use strict; use warnings; use lib '/data/home/2ge/perl/modules'; use Foo::Bar; my $dbh = DBI-connect(DBI:mysql:database=foo;host=localhost;port=3306, , ) or die Can't connect: , $DBI::errstr; ... now I want to share this $dbh connection to Bar.pm, so I should use

RE: CGI/DBI - Can anyone work out why this fails

2005-02-11 Thread Bob Showalter
mike wrote: I have the following code $cat1; if ($cat1){ my $cat1=%$category%; The my here is scoped to this if { } block, so you aren't changing the outer $cat1 } else { $cat1=$category; } $row=$dbh-prepare(SELECT contact_id,first_name,last_name,organisation FROM tb_contacts

RE: how to share DB connection

2005-02-11 Thread Bob Showalter
Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote: Hi, I have script: use strict; use warnings; use lib '/data/home/2ge/perl/modules'; use Foo::Bar; my $dbh = DBI-connect(DBI:mysql:database=foo;host=localhost;port=3306, , ) or die Can't connect: , $DBI::errstr; ... now I want to share this

Re: how to share DB connection

2005-02-11 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Bob Showalter [BS], on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 08:07 (-0500) typed the following: BS Well, Bar.pm can't see the my() variable in your main program, so you need BS to: BS a) pass $dbh to db_get(), or ok, this seems good for me, I call all db_operations with reference of hash, so I can:

Re: how to share DB connection

2005-02-11 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote: Bob Showalter [BS], on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 08:07 (-0500) typed the following: BS Well, Bar.pm can't see the my() variable in your main program, so you need BS to: BS a) pass $dbh to db_get(), or ok, this seems good for me, I call all db_operations with

RE: how to share DB connection

2005-02-11 Thread Bob Showalter
Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote: Bob Showalter [BS], on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 08:07 (-0500) typed the following: c) Have $dbh live in Bar.pm and use Exporter to export it back to the main program, or I want set $dbh in main script. You can still do that. You would do something like

Re: how to share DB connection

2005-02-11 Thread Ing. Branislav Gerzo
Bob Showalter [BS], on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 09:40 (-0500) wrote: BS You can still do that. You would do something like this: BSpackage Foo::Bar; BSuse base 'Exporter'; BSour @EXPORT = qw/$dbh/; BSour $dbh; thanks a lot, that's exactly I looking for. -- ...m8s, cu l8r,

write new file to same dir

2005-02-11 Thread Brian Volk
Hi All, I'm having trouble w/ my script... I can open the dir, read the dir and even get the s/// to work I just don't know how to write the new file to a new dir. or the same dir for that matter... If someone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. Maybe

Re: write new file to same dir

2005-02-11 Thread Gareth Johnston
On Fri, February 11, 2005 15:45, Brian Volk said: Hi All, I'm having trouble w/ my script... I can open the dir, read the dir and even get the s/// to work I just don't know how to write the new file to a new dir. or the same dir for that matter... If someone could point me in

Re: write new file to same dir

2005-02-11 Thread bright true
Hi , actually you're just opening a directory ... and you're not writing into a file to write a file .. you can use the following 1- with replace the old file open(FILE,$dir/filenamt.txt); print FILE Something Here; close(FILE); 2- to write into a file with out replace it .. (with out

RE: write new file to same dir

2005-02-11 Thread Brian Volk
Thank you for your help... Where I'm still confused is, the script below does just what I want it to do and I can even see the results in the STOUT... I'm just not sure how I get the changes written to the 5 files in the dir... my $dir = C:/brian/test_html; opendir (HTML, $dir) or die Can't

Re: write new file to same dir

2005-02-11 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Brian Volk wrote: Hi All, I'm having trouble w/ my script... I can open the dir, read the dir and even get the s/// to work I just don't know how to write the new file to a new dir. or the same dir for that matter... If someone could point me in the right direction I would really

Re: write new file to same dir

2005-02-11 Thread John W. Krahn
Brian Volk wrote: Hi All, Hello, I'm having trouble w/ my script... I can open the dir, read the dir and even get the s/// to work I just don't know how to write the new file to a new dir. or the same dir for that matter... If someone could point me in the right direction I would

Software to understand Scale.

2005-02-11 Thread Diogo Nunes de Oliveira
Hi folks, I´d like to know if you can give me a hand. Well, I´m trying to develop a software that understands the code/protocol generated by a scale when it weights something. Picture this: The scale weights the product and the software interprets that weight. The scale has a different

RE: write new file to same dir

2005-02-11 Thread Brian Volk
Thank you so much for spelling it out for me. I learned a lot! ...BTW your --Untested-- worked great! :~) Brian -Original Message- From: Wiggins d'Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:31 PM To: Brian Volk Cc: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: Re: write

Read Serial Port String

2005-02-11 Thread Diogo Nunes de Oliveira
Hi you all... Do you know how I can get the code that is passed by the serial port? I mean, I wanna create a script that snifs the serial port, gets the string, and write it to a file to then, convert it into plain english (portuguese, really, hehehe)... What should I do? Does Win32::SerialPort

Compare file modification time

2005-02-11 Thread perl
How do I best compare mtime of several files. I have a script for making daily backups into a given directory. Now I want to modify it to delete old backups if the total exceed cetain number. The idea was to compare the mtime of all file to figure out old files to delete, but somehow I think

Perl versus EXPECT(tcl)

2005-02-11 Thread A B C
Greetings, I've heard that Expect(tcl) is outstanding in what it specializes in. Can any experts in both Expect and Perl Networking comment? I want to know if Perl's Networking arena is superior or equal to what Expect specializes in. __ Do you

Re: Software to understand Scale.

2005-02-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Diogo Nunes de Oliveira wrote: I´m trying to develop a software that understands the code/protocol generated by a scale when it weights something. Picture this: The scale weights the product and the software interprets that weight. The scale has a different

Re: Read Serial Port String

2005-02-11 Thread Xiaofang Zhou
Hi, Diogo, Yes, that module can do what you need. I've been using that Win32::SerialPort under win9x some years ago. It can send/receive data with COM port. Thanks, Xiaofang. 2005-02-11 21:31:00 Hi you all... Do you know how I can get the code that is passed by the serial port? I mean, I

Re: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl)

2005-02-11 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, A B C wrote: I've heard that Expect(tcl) is outstanding in what it specializes in. Can any experts in both Expect and Perl Networking comment? I want to know if Perl's Networking arena is superior or equal to what Expect specializes in. They can't really be compared

Re: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl)

2005-02-11 Thread Bob Showalter
Chris Devers wrote: Several programming languages have mechanisms for building wrappers around Expect, including Perl. In this case, you need a module like Expect.pm or Expect::Simple, as described here: Pedantic point: Expect.pm is perhaps best thought of as an Expect clone or workalike. It does

Re: Re: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl)

2005-02-11 Thread Xiaofang Zhou
Hi, Bob, Sounds the expert.pm is cool. But when I try to install the pre-required io::pty, I got a fatal error. Is it possible to install io::tty and expert on xp? --- cl -c -nologo -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAV E_DES_FCRYPT

Re: Read Serial Port String

2005-02-11 Thread Todd W
Diogo Nunes de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi you all... Do you know how I can get the code that is passed by the serial port? I mean, I wanna create a script that snifs the serial port, gets the string, and write it to a file to then, convert it into

Re: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl)

2005-02-11 Thread forknerr
Perl has modules you can include that allow you to use the power of perl and the functionality of Expect. - Original Message - From: A B C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:16 pm Subject: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl) Greetings, I've heard that Expect(tcl) is outstanding

Re: Re: Re: Perl versus EXPECT(tcl)

2005-02-11 Thread Xiaofang Zhou
Hi, I have trouble using B::Bytecode on xp/activeperl 5.6. With a very simple script, the command: perl -MO=Bytecode,-ofirst.byte first.pl Can't work properly. --first.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print Hello World!\n; 1; - Please let me know if anyone have