I'm working on a site that has both a public area and a members area. I would like to make it so that a menu appears on both, but some items are available to people logged in as members and not to the public.
I wrote a script that use an include statement in a .shtml file to do this, but I have a few perl scripts that I'm using HTML::Template to return output with that I can't include the script with.

So, my question is:
A) How can I execute a script within a script (and is this a good/bad idea)?
OR
B) Is there a way to have a script in a seperate file, then include it into a file as if it were a sub and execute it?

If I'm not being clear in what I need to do, please let me know and I'll gladly elaborate some more.

Basically I would like to execute a script within a script OR somehow include it into the file, and run it as a sub. Is there a way to do this? And is it a bad idea?

Thx Monks!


Steny

In reply to Exec script within script or import sub...? help plz by Anonymous Monk

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