A few more random questions for all the wise monks :)

1) You write a counter script and want it to work off your html page using SSI or something, how can you do this? Someone tried to explain in the CB but it sounded rather difficult but I would imagine it should be a farily simple thing to do. How often do you write a perl script and want it to just be totally perl? Some scripts like counters you have to embed in your html documents somehow otherwise there wouldn't be a point. Can someone lead me to information about this?

2) How can you make a new perl/html file for something a user types in on a form? I'm designing a form which people write and save poems to my site. I want each poem they write to be on their own separate page that the program makes for them.

3) Still working on a poem script I will be saving a lot of information: Poem Title, Poem, Date, Author Name, Category, etc. and hopefully in the future allow them to edit the poems already on the site. Would I be looking at MySQL instead of SDBM or DBM for this?

Thanks for all your help!

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sulfericacid

In reply to SSI/Database questions by sulfericacid

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