Dear Monks,

I'd like to think that this is a simple question, but I've searched many places and am having trouble. I'd like to combine HTML::Template (great tutorials on this btw!) with something like the "node" feature you have on PerlMonks - so that my index.pl looks like:

www.domainname.com/index.pl?id=number

How do I go about this? Can I do it without MySQL? Idealistically i would be able to type in a number and it would find that information from my database (text files), and display a page that combines my HTML::Template by using the ID tag to parse for the rest of variables on the same line in the text files.

Thanks soooo much!!!!

In reply to Implement index.pl?something by Anonymous Monk

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