trying to run a perl program in HTML

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Re: trying to run a perl program in HTML⭐ by tinman (Curate) on Apr 23, 2001 at 00:13 UTC
You need to install a webserver on your computer.. use IIS, PWS, or even Apache for Win32.. Next, write a HTML form as so.. `<form action="launcher.pl" method="post"> <input type="submit" name="sub" value="Run this!"> </form>` [download] on your page.. Inside your launcher.pl CGI script (yes, you've writen a CGI script now), execute the Perl script that you want using exec or system or backticks like so.. `#!c:/perl/bin -w use strict; use CGI; my $q = new CGI; my $path_to_program = "c:/perl/myprog/prog.pl"; my $return_value = system("c:/perl/bin/perl.exe",$path_to_program); # this is the actual execution of the script. # now you can put a message to the user print $q->header; # send correct header, text/html # put HTML here` [download] It might be best if you restrict access to this script to ONLY your machine.. HTH	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: trying to run a perl program in HTML by epoptai (Curate) on Apr 23, 2001 at 00:09 UTC
You need to set up a webserver with Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to execute perl scripts on your local computer. Meanwhile you can capture the HTML output of a script with something like `perl myprogram.pl >myprogram.html` to view static pages in a browser.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: trying to run a perl program in HTML by tomhukins (Curate) on May 10, 2001 at 17:33 UTC
If you use ActivePerl, you can write client side Perl scripts, just as you might write client side Javascript. Be aware of the security implications of doing this: you don't want malicious Web pages to include things like `unlink` within `<SCRIPT>` tags, for example.	[reply] [d/l] [select]