Hi Monks,

I intend to have an index.pl (or index.cgi) served as the default html page. Instead of hard-coding the page's contents into index.pl, I'm thinking of storing them in a database or in a module file and have index.pl retrieve the appropriate contents and display them onto a webpage. Is that a good idea?

If the contents reside in the database (this database is also for holding other information, such as members' profiles, presumably in a table of its own), persons who have access to an admin script can use it to change parts of the contents in the database, without having to touch index.pl.

Another option I've thought of is to store the contents in a hash in a module file and have index.pl retrieve the contents from there.

Are those sensible things to do?

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.