OK, I have an interesting predicimant:

The site I am currently working on uses phtml html files. For example (an co-incidentally my problem) we have a page called search.phtml.

Now, in my apache config, I have set up:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .phtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps


So what this does is enables apache to process includes in phtml files. Which works fine and peechy. Now, my search.phtml page looks like this:

<html>
<? include ('http://edpd02/1337/common_inc/top_section.inc'); ?>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<? include ('http://edpd02/cgi-bin/1337/search.pl'); ?>
</body>
</html>

so what that does is displays a search page (includes a navigation menu at the top of the page), and then prints the results of running the search.pl script to the page( in this case we didn't run a search, so it only displays a search box)

now that works all fine aswell.

Problem is, when we run a search, the results are processed/ printed out by result.pl. This prints a new page, WITHOUT the ability to include the navigational menu at the top!!

which is where my problem lies. I guess if you have readt this and followed, you may know the answer, else I can't to my knowledge explain it any better....

basically as a result of the search it displays the results on a new page, and prints the <? include ('http://edpd02/1337/common_inc/top_section.inc'); ?> at the top of the html page, yet doesnt actually 'include' that inc file

Any ides on how to go about rectifying this?

In reply to sorry guys - try this one: perl, phtml and apache - please read by Mac

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