Fellow monks,

This is more of a 'how do the rest of you do it?' type of question.

My current CGI script has a fair amount of hard coded HTML, which I wish to separate out and use HTML::Template.

I have multiple processes running, updating 'status' files. I control the starting/stopping of these via a CGI web page. I have to display the current status of these processes (up to 200) refreshing about every 10 seconds.

The problem is that I'm also using frames. Will I need to set up several templates for the frames and their respective contents, or is there a better way to present the dynamic content (LAYER's perhaps? or HTML::Application?).

perldoc Template didn't give much of a clue, and I couldn't find much in Super Search or on Google (apart from references to JavaScript and DHTML).

Thanks for putting up with me.

'I think the problem lies in the fact that your data doesn't fit my program'.

In reply to HTML::Template and frames by awkmonk

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