I've written a small Perl CMS using CGI::Application and HTML::Template that publishes to static files with any extension that the designer prefers - usually php or shtml, but it could be anything their hearts desire. The CMS publishes to individual files consisting of things like article content, navigation and latest story lists that are all "included" together at view time. Depending on their preferred file extension, the designers will modify the source templates to use their language-specific include statements.

Eveything is working fine until I need to generate dynamic output - say the result of a full text search. If I just return the results then none of the language-specific statements are executed, since the output is generated directly from Perl and passed to the web server. Now, I know that there must be a way around this, because another CMS I've used (Article Manager) does this. Unfortunately, they've scrambled their code, so I don't know what their technique is. I think that they generate a temporary file on the fly, but I'm not sure. Any ideas appreciated

In reply to How do I present other web extensions? by astroboy

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