[Zope] How to mix perl and dtml

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:40:20 -0500


JJ,

You probably want to take a look at the Zope-Perl mail list at
http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-perl.  Archives of the list are
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Schut, Koos (Koos)" <kschut@avaya.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:16 AM
Subject: [Zope] How to mix perl and dtml


> Hi all,
>
> Situation:
> I have a fairly strong background in perl. I've lots of custom perl-tools
on
> an Informix-database unix-machine on which I have the zope web-server
> running now. What I want is to create some web-pages, displaying
information
> as distilled from the database. This destillation, I can do easily with
> perl. I view the zope web-pages from a different PC.
>
> Questions:
> How do I create a zope method to actually run a perl destillaton-process
and
> have the result in a Zope web-page?
>
> What I can do is write perl-scripts which even create html-code. What I do
> not know is how to call the perl-stuff from a zope-page, and get the
results
> in a zope html-page. Reading the different docs, it is clear that it
should
> be possible.
>
> Can anyone give me some clever hints here?
>
> Cheers,
> Koos.
>
> J.J. Schut
> Integration Specialist
> Avaya
> The Former Enterprise Networks Group of Lucent Technologies
> tel. +31 (0)30 609 7835
> fax. +31 (0)30 609 7650
> email kschut@avaya.com
>
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