prakashk
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Mar 30, 2000, 9:40 AM
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Re: Updating a site with new data
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You can use any of the several template-based methods to accomplish this. For example (using the module CGI::FastTemplate), you can create a template file (say, table.tpl) containing your HTML code, except the table:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR>
<HTML>
...
<TABLE>
$my_table_data
</TABLE>
...
...
</HTML>
</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Notice the variable name '$my_table_data' above.
Now in your script, do this:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR>
use CGI::FastTemplate;
my $tpl = new CGI::FastTemplate("/path/to/templates");
$tpl->define(table => "table.tpl");
# get your table data and create HTML table rows out of them
# and save it in the variable $latest_data
$tpl->assign(my_table_data => $latest_data);
$tpl->parse(NEW_HTML => "table");
$tpl->print;
</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
The above code prints your HTML in the template file replacing the variable $my_table_data with HTML rows of your latest data.
This module is available at CPAN. The URL is
<http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CGI-FastTemplate>
There are several modules on CPAN for template-based text (HTML or otherwise) generation. If you go to <http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Template> you'll see a bunch of such modules.
HTH,
Prakash
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