headers with no SSI

[chevyv8]

My ISP allows me to use SSI in my HTML pages, this makes it easy to create headers, footers and menus but now I have to move the site to another ISP that does not allow SSI but does allow Perl CGI, my question what do I need to replace the include statements with to make the web site work again?

 

[waiterm]

You could try using the require statment remembering you will have to assign a library folder first, and put the headers/footers/menus etc in as sub routines:

use lib "../cgi-bin/LIB";
require "MySubs.pl";

Don't forget that the headers/footers/menus may need to be converted from straightforward HTML to Perl.

You could also put the HTML files into the library folder, and require "" them individually from there, although I've never tried this as I don't tend to deal with CGI that much.

Rob Waite

http://www.hostpipe.co.uk?src=TT

 

[waiterm]

Also take a look at

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=959512&page=1

Rob Waite

http://www.hostpipe.co.uk?src=TT

 

[Rieekan]

If your new ISP doesn't allow SSI, you're going to have to go with a different solution altogether. Simply replacing those statements won't work. Perl isn't really made to do what you're looking for, but if you were to write programs that dynamically added the content of your page, you could implement a solution in Perl. Also, there are some Modules that could help out as well such as HTML::Template, but you still have the issue with needing to write a Perl script to render the page.

In lieu of using Perl, I would suggest going with PHP as it is a minimal change for your pages this way. While I won't claim to know vast amounts of knowledge in PHP, I know it can be done by using PHP includes. Put a request in with the PHP forum ( forum434 ) to find out how this is done.

- Rieekan

 

[PaulTEG]

A nasty way, and not ideal by any means, would be to have perl generate javascript for you

<script language=javascript src=/cgi-bin/header.pl></script>
<noscript>If you had javascript enabled you'd see this page how we designed it</noscript>

header.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/javascript\n\n";
$header=qq(All the stuff you need in here);
print "document.write($header);

It's got me out of a hole in the past for a few small audience sites. BUT, not ideal, coz some people don't enable javascript in their browser

Just another route
--Paul

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