reusing HTML code 1

[JimJx]

Hi all,

I think I know the answer to this question, but will ask anyway.....

The server I am on does not allow SSI, but I have several pages where there is a lot of static HTML code. I was using print<< statements to work around that when I only had 2 pages to worry abuot. But the project has been expanded to roughly a dozen pages and I don't want to have to use that on every page.

So, my thinking was to place the here statements in seperate files and reference them by something like

open TOP, 'top.cgi';
while (<TOP>)
print "$_";
}

but that isn't working.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Jim

 

[max1x]

Your while loop is not set properly.

open TOP, "top.cgi" || warn "$!\n"; #you may need to define the absolute path to top.cgi and print out a warning if it cant' find it.
while (<TOP>) {--> is missing
print "$_";
}
close TOP;

 

[JimJx]

The actual site I am working on resides on another system, so it was not a copy & paste. I did spot the missing { right after I posted. But I think what killed it was I screwed up and put the close statement before the } ....

I think just getting away from it for a few minutes really helped.

Thank you for the reply, Max, I do appreciate you taking the time to read and respond.

Jim

 

[brigmar]

Not a solution, which you already have, but a tidbit to take away with you...

The loop you have written can also be written:

open FILE,"top.cgi";
print while <FILE>;
close FILE;

or even more concisely:

open FILE,"top.cgi";
print <FILE>;
close FILE;

 

[ishnid]

You could use the HTML::Template module for this. The TMPL_INCLUDE tag will allow you to bring in other files too.

 

[stevexff]

Template::Toolkit has some pretty good <include> type processing which also supports nested operation (including another include) loops, conditionals etc.

Steve

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