Hi all...

I'm about to create a new wesbite and I thought it would be a good opportunity to investigate a few tricks that could be pulled off with Perl. Its going to be a very simple affair, links down the left hand side, contents appearing on the right. What I thought it would be nice to do would be to have some sort of static file on the server that contains the links to appear on the left, and then in the static file also something telling what html/pl file holds the actual contents...

So... the menu bar gets generated automatically and all I have to do to add a new page is create the actual contents and add a reference to it in some sort of static data file (e.g. a CSV file). eg ..

Home,index.pl?node=home
My Work,index.pl?node=work
...

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Update:I've replaced this paragraph because people seemed to take offence at it and think that I hadn't used the search for HTML modules. I had. What I was asking was which ones people preferred and why - i.e. constructive criticism... I'm not lazy, I'm interested in other peoples opinions. Please think before you downvote.

Thanks.

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Arun

In reply to Static Data for Websites by arunhorne

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