Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: SSI vs DBMAN

Aug 3, 1999, 8:59 AM

hardburn

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Aug 3, 1999, 8:59 AM

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SSI vs DBMAN

Hi..
I have a db with dbman and i have a admin banner system. I need put this sentence in each .html

but the html of the db are in file.pl
If I put this code into file.pl this code not function. what is the problem???

Aug 3, 1999, 1:53 PM

Mark Badolato

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Aug 3, 1999, 1:53 PM

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SSI does not work from within a cgi program because the output is not parsed. If you are using webadverts, use the included subroutine as mentioned in the docs.

--mark

Aug 4, 1999, 2:17 AM

Pasha1

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Aug 4, 1999, 2:17 AM

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Actually it works, if you do it this way:

Code:
$myads = "<!--#exec cgi='ads.pl' -->"; 
print "$myads";

or this:

Code:
print "<!--#exec cgi='ads.pl' -->";

At least I do it this way on my site Smile

Pasha

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Aug 4, 1999, 6:26 AM

dan

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Aug 4, 1999, 6:26 AM

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Mark is right - no surprise Smile

Dynamic pages created on the fly are not parsed. You can insert SSI code in script generated pages for parsing if the page is static - created in advance and saved as a HTML file. Pasha is probably referring to the static pages (for example, Links category HTML pages). Dynamic pages (for example, Links search result pages) will not be parsed and SSI will be ignored.

Dan Smile

Aug 4, 1999, 8:34 AM

Eliot

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Aug 4, 1999, 8:34 AM

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As Mark mentioned you can create a sub-routine in the default.cgi file, such as:

Code:
sub include_file { 
            open(FILE, "/cgi-bin/ads.pl")  
           or die("Couldn't open the file."); 
                    @lines = <FILE>; 
                    close(FILE); 
                    foreach $line (@lines) { 
                    print $line; 
                    } 
}

You would call this sub-routine in html.pl with the following code:

Code:
&include_file;

There is also a Thread in the DBMAN Discussion Forum that discusses this issue:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...m12/HTML/000446.html

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