Re: Return data from script to a results page

Uhhh ... this is bigger question than you have given information for. Questions for you:

Do you have any CGI scripts running right now?
How much do you know about CGI programming?
Is this a page that already exists that you want to modify slightly?
Will netobjects allow you to run a Perl CGI script on their site(s)?
If they do, are you paying for that level of service?
If they do, are you allowed to write it?

PHP and Javascript have one important capability that Perl does not - you can embed them into a webpage. Perl (usually) requires that you have access to the webserver itself. netobjects recommending PHP or ASP implies, to me, that they don't allow access to the cgi-bin directory. More info would definitely be useful ...

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Re: Re: Return data from script to a results page by dsergent (Novice) on Sep 23, 2003 at 19:37 UTC
1. This is the first script we are using. 2. Enough to be a newbie. 3. Yes the page exists and I want to fill in the fields with the data from the script. 4,5,&6. Yes the isp allows us to use php,asp,perl, it is running on IIS, because our shopping cart uses IIS. We have full writes to the script directory. Thanks, I hope this info helps you.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Return data from script to a results page by alienhuman (Pilgrim) on Sep 23, 2003 at 20:04 UTC
Can you describe what you want to do in more detail? It sounds like what you want to do is have a perl script get information from some third party source and then output an HTML page inserting that information where appropriate (probably with pattern matching). Does that accurately describe what you want to do? If not, describe it in more detail. Also, please use "<p>" to format your writeups here on Perlmonks... much easier to read. Check out Writeup Formatting Tips for more information. AH	[reply]