Need help with PERL

mrortner · Post by **mrortner** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:38 pm

I have a rather complicated need.

I have a menu generated by a .pm file that has to be perl because I am passing some things back and forth.

My page looks like this.

Large windo
IFrame
IFrame

the first IFrame is my menu and the second is the results frame for the menu item I clicked.

I need to populate my menu with data from a database that I have and then need it to go across the first IFrame to the 2nd IFrame.

Is it possible to insert the menu_data into my perl module and then use perl variables to populate the menu items? If so then will it be possiblem for me to go across frames?

Has anyone done this before?

perldev · Post by **perldev** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:57 pm

To replace data source with /whatever/yourprog.pl will do it.

mrortner · Post by **mrortner** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:30 pm

I'm sorry, could you expand that thought a little?
I not very familiar with Milonic yet.

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:26 am

Not sure, is it where you change menu_data.js to .pl
I know its done with .php sometimes.

maz

mrortner · Post by **mrortner** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:31 am

That wont' work with perl files I don't think. Apache has the abiltiy to parse PHP script in files but not perl

Maz · Post by **Maz** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:34 am

Sounds like you'll have to try placing the contents of menu_data in perl and let us know what happens.

I rarely see anyone talking about perl & js but someone might be able to help with the js.

maz