UPDATE: Got it working. See readmore for code.

#!C:/xampp/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Ajax;
use Template; # for template toolkit support
use CGI::Carp qw[fatalsToBrowser]; #DEBUG ONLY

my $config = {
      INCLUDE_PATH => 'tt/',  # or list ref
};

my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $pjx = CGI::Ajax->new( 'login' => \&do_login );
my $tt  = Template->new($config);

print $pjx->build_html($cgi, \&main_page);

sub do_login {
    my $input = shift;
    # do something with $input
    my $output = $input . " was the input!";
    return( $output );
}

sub main_page {
 
  my $template = 'main.tt';
  my $vars = { title =>'AJAX Test' };
  my $output = '';
  $tt->process($template, $vars, \$output)
       || die $tt->error(), "\n";
  return $output;
 
}

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Hey gang.

This is probably something that's right in front of my face, but I'm attempting to get started on some AJAX using CGI::Ajax and Template (to handle HTML processing). The demo from the docs ran great, however my code is throwing this error:

malformed header from script. Bad header=<html><head><s
+cript type="text: ajax.cgi

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Not only that, but it's returning the HTML as text to the browser.

Here's my code:

#!C:/xampp/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Ajax;
use Template; # for template toolkit support
use CGI::Carp qw[fatalsToBrowser]; #DEBUG ONLY

my $config = {
      INCLUDE_PATH => '/tt',  # or list ref
      INTERPOLATE  => 1,               # expand "$var" in plain text
      POST_CHOMP   => 1,               # cleanup whitespace 
      PRE_PROCESS  => 'header',        # prefix each template
      EVAL_PERL    => 1,               # evaluate Perl code blocks
};

my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $pjx = CGI::Ajax->new( 'login' => \&do_login );
my $tt  = Template->new();

print $pjx->build_html($cgi, \&main_page);

sub do_login {
    my $input = shift;
    # do something with $input
    my $output = $input . " was the input!";
    return( $output );
}

sub main_page {
  
  my $template = "main.tt";
  return $tt->process($template, { title =>'AJAX Login'}) or die $tt->
+error;
 
}

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Any ideas? I'm thinking it's something to do with how build_html in CGI::Ajax tries to cope with process in T::T.

Thanks in advance!

meh.

In reply to CGI::Ajax + Template::Toolkit Question by stonecolddevin

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