Hello O' Wise Ones,

I'm trying to write a script to produce html pages from a user input or submission with the ability to rate. I
need to enter an ssi code in the html section of the script. I'm sure the solution is rather simple as I am a
complete Perl novice. Everything works except for the printing of the $id value.

Here is the line of code:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/rating/rate_display.cgi?java=yes&product=Name_of_Product&id=$id"-->

The $id is created and printed to a flat database file but I cannot get it to print in the html output page. I'm
sure I'm formatting it incorrectly or something. If it were an input from the html form field, it would
print fine so I probably have to convert this value somehow.

Any ideas?

In reply to Just a simple task by Migey

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