Sure, here's an example of one of our pages:

Page
index.html

Includes
/aliasdir1/hdr/header.html
/aliasdir1/nav/nav.html
/aliasdir1/foot/footer.html
/aliasdir2/content/content1.html
/aliasdir2/content/content2.html
/aliasdir2/content/content3.html

The company deals with homeownership. Let's say I want to add a dynamicly generated list of brokers between content2.html and content3.html. Something simple from a flatfile or database; or maybe a graph to show the interest rates over the last 10 years; or whatever.

• Simply I could include a CGI script that gets data from a flatfile or database.
• Currently, I'd have to write a script to:
1. open the current file
2. parse throught the current file, to find all of the includes
   probably using something arcane, because I don't have access to install CPAN Packages
3. open the alias file
   i think it is in: /pkgs1/ns-home/web/https/https-www-dev1/config/obj.conf
4. search for the required aliases
5. reassemble the includes with the proper aliases
6. open the includes
7. process my database or flatfile request
8. re-assemble everthing into the right order
9. then make sure that every link in the entire site (over 2000 pages), links to my CGI script, instead of the original html file.

I may have missed a step or two, but it is a big hassle. Not to mention a memory hog, especially if I am doing it on the homepage, which gets a decent number of hits per day.
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paul

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