🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Apr 1, 2012 03:45 PM UTC:
To add a ratings system and a login form to the header, I will need to write the header in PHP, not Perl. Maybe it could be done in Perl, but I normally write in PHP, PHP has natural integration with HTML, and its syntax is more like C. So I prefer to use PHP. The problem is that the header files called by most of the pages here are Perl CGI scripts, and I can't just write PHP in a .cgi file. Nor have I found a way to call a PHP script from a Perl script. So it looks like I will have to rewrite all the HTML files that call headerscript.cgi or other Perl headers. This seemed like a time-consuming task until I realized I could write a script to recursively load and edit all the HTML files on the site. I'll test it on one file before I go recursive through the whole site. While I'm at it, I'll also see about converting pages to UTF-8. So I'll find a page using Latin-1 and test it on that. If it works, site-wide conversion to UTF-8 will be much easier. I'll get on this after work.
To add a ratings system and a login form to the header, I will need to write the header in PHP, not Perl. Maybe it could be done in Perl, but I normally write in PHP, PHP has natural integration with HTML, and its syntax is more like C. So I prefer to use PHP. The problem is that the header files called by most of the pages here are Perl CGI scripts, and I can't just write PHP in a .cgi file. Nor have I found a way to call a PHP script from a Perl script. So it looks like I will have to rewrite all the HTML files that call headerscript.cgi or other Perl headers. This seemed like a time-consuming task until I realized I could write a script to recursively load and edit all the HTML files on the site. I'll test it on one file before I go recursive through the whole site. While I'm at it, I'll also see about converting pages to UTF-8. So I'll find a page using Latin-1 and test it on that. If it works, site-wide conversion to UTF-8 will be much easier. I'll get on this after work.