Re: jQuery and Perl

Perhaps you should re read the jQuery documentation. You can't just drop Perl code into a JavaScript framework and expect it to do anything other than fail. What you want is to use jQuery (see $.get and Ajax documentation for examples) to communicate with your backend CGI scripts/application (your Perl code querying Oracle via DBI) and do whatever you see fit to the DOM with/depending on the results.

"Should I be using static HTML pages with embedded js/css/Perl, or using a Perl script with js/css inside?"

I use HTML::Template to separate my HTML/jQuery code from my Perl code.

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Re^2: jQuery and Perl by sierpinski (Chaplain) on May 27, 2010 at 14:40 UTC
That's what I thought... I saw a post somewhere where someone claimed to have inserted <%perl> inside the function part of the jQuery script, but I couldn't see how a client-side function could cause any back-end processing, but I figured I'd ask anyway. Thanks for the advice. It'll probably be easier to support with static HTML pages anyway. If management decides to add a bunch of extra functionality later (which I guess is very likely), having Perl scripts generate all those pages would be messy anyway, let alone trying to incorporate jQuery as well.	[reply]
Re^3: jQuery and Perl by marto (Cardinal) on May 27, 2010 at 14:48 UTC
"having Perl scripts generate all those pages would be messy anyway, let alone trying to incorporate jQuery as well." Yeah, that's why I use HTML::Template, it's pretty much the same as having a standard HTML file with the exception that you can populate (via non HTML, HTML::Template specific tags) the HTML/JavaScript/jQuery/css from from Perl, in my case, our Oracle databases. Perhaps overkill for what you are working on, but I'd suggest looking at a templating system, see Framework, Templating, and Content Management Systems from the tutorials section for further reading. Best of luck Martin	[reply]
Re^4: jQuery and Perl by sierpinski (Chaplain) on May 27, 2010 at 16:14 UTC
Thanks, I'll definitely check out HTTP::Template. I hadn't really looked at it before, but from what you said, sounds exactly like what I need to save quite a bit of time and effort.	[reply]
Re^3: jQuery and Perl by Anonymous Monk on May 27, 2010 at 14:51 UTC
<%perl> is HTML::Mason syntax, so it could work. There is also pQuery	[reply]
Re^4: jQuery and Perl by Corion (Patriarch) on May 27, 2010 at 14:54 UTC
pQuery just ports the jQuery API to Perl. It does not provide any RPC mechanism and/or interpolation mechanism which would allow you to mix Perl and Javascript or to write your Javascript in Perl.	[reply]