WebSQL is a Sybase product based on perl and Sybperl 2.x (really, the Sybase::CTlib module). It's a product first released in early 1996, so the version of perl that it uses is very old (5.001m IIRC) and a similarly ancient version of Sybase::CTlib. I seem to remember someone mentioning an Apache::WebSql module that worked with modperl and that let you use .hts files without modifications, although last time I checked a couldn't find it on CPAN.

It should be feasible to adapt one of the current HTML templating systems to handle the <SYB> tags, although getting that to work right might really be more work than just porting the whole thing to PHP, as that appears to be your real target platform. In any case you'll have to adapt the Sybase calls to DBI calls so that it will work with MySQL.

Michael

In reply to Re: Help with .hts (sybase "html" files w/inline perl) by mpeppler
in thread Help with .hts (sybase "html" files w/inline perl) by chrisgraber

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