Ok,

I have been working on a short term web project that is by no means finished yet, but is being developed slowly at a time. I have a question that I can't seem to figure out, I have no clue where to search in the pod's or perl docs at for this type of situation, and have been working (*worrying*) for about a week now trying to figure out how to program this part of the project.

Here is the main question: I have a CGI site made with Perl, and what it does is display various items like news, announcements, links to other sites, a user post board, etc. (similar to news sites such as slashdot, etc.)

This question has two main parts that need to fit together:
  1. I would like to be able for a person setting up this site to be able to add extra pages to the site, since people usually want to see more sections, such as (contact us, etc.) How would I do this?
  2. Next, I would like the main part of the program (that runs the rest of the files needed for the site,) to be able to search a folder where those new pages would be, and know what there is to pick from for if a user wanted to visit a new page. How would I do this?


I have no clue what to do for this type of situation, since I haven't programmed many CGI's. Does anyone know of any good methods I could try for these abstract questions? Or what man page would help, if there is one that is specific to this type of problem.

Andy Summers

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