Hi All,
I am very new to perl coding, I am calling a method, which again calls some other method and then generate an html code. I need to embed the htmlcode in my current code, so as to add that to the current html code.
I am calling the method like this
my $test = $frek->xyz(); where xyz generated an html.
now i need to embed the $test in my html, but not finding the way out. PLease help
Its not entirely clear what you want, but maybe it's a
what would answer your question. What exactly do you try do do? Can you give a specific example?
After reading another of your comments, I think I got what you are trying to accomplish.
Lets imagine we have a Perl class 'MyClass' that contains a method xyz():
package MyClass;
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $self = { x => shift, y => shift, z => shift };
bless $self, $class;
return $self
}
sub xyz { # <== here we go
my ($self) = @_;
return $self->{x} * $self->{y} * $self->{z}
}
1;
If your Perl program (e.g. cgitest.pl) works as a simple CGI-script
from a cgi-bin directory, it would look like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
# here we have html included in source
my $html = q{
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
<div id='test_results'> #{$test}# </div>
</body>
</html>
};
use MyClass; # lets hope it'll be found
my $frek = new MyClass(10,10,10); # create instance
my $test = $frek->xyz(); # get value
$html =~ s/#{(\$\w+)}#/$1/eeg; # now replace #{$test}# in html by $test
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; # output modified html to browser
print $html;
This would replace the marker #{$var}# by the value
of the actual $var and print the resulting html.
Note the (double) /ee after the substitution pattern.
But then, if your web site is a Mason site, your test.html simply looks like:
<h1>Test</h1>
<div id='test_results'> <% $test %> </div>
<!-- Perl initialization code goes below -->
<%init>
use MyClass;
my $frek = new MyClass(10,10,10);
my $test = $frek->xyz();
</%init>
which can be written similar with a %perl code block :
<h1>Test</h1>
<%perl>
use MyClass;
my $frek = new MyClass(10,10,10);
my $test = $frek->xyz();
</%perl>
<div id='test_results'> <% $test %> </div>
but now, you have intermingled html parts and Perl parts, whereas in the example above, all Perl code goes below the html. If your Web- Server is properly configured for HTML::Mason, it will handle either of them fine. Mason is available for Windows, Unix and whatever systems there are.
Regards
rbo