[jdriver]

Hello everyone,

I'm in a bit of a bind, I need to create a couple 1000 HTML pages in a short amount of time. The information, with the exception of about 10 items, are static. I tried my hand at a Perl script that would query me for the 10 items and then create the HTML file, but that blew up in my face. Does anyone know of a Perl script or program out there that would meet my needs?


Thanks in advance!


Jeremy D

[Shadow2531]

I made a c++ console app recently that asks for your username, your password and outputs an html file with a hidden form, with the entered username and passwords as the values for the input textboxes.

The file gets saved as username's_email.html

It could be modified to ask 10 things each time and be modified to ouptut different html and different file names.

I will attempt to make the program in perl, but if you are interested in an example of c++ code that would do that, I can post it.

[Shadow2531]

O.K. here's an example that should help. You can adapt it to your needs. When asked to quit, if you just press enter, it will loop and ask for new entries. If you enter anything else for quit, the program will end. The name of the file that is generated is determined by the username.

#!usr/bin/perl
generate();
sub generate()
{
system("cls");
print "Enter Username: ";
$username = <STDIN>;
print "Enter Password: ";
$password = <STDIN>;
print"\n";
chomp($username);
chomp($password);
open (HTML,">$username.html");
print HTML '<input type="text" name="username" value="'.$username.'">'."\n";
print HTML '<input type="text" name="password" value="'.$password.'">'."\n";
system("cls");
print "Quit? ";
$quit = <STDIN>;
chomp($quit);
if ($quit eq "")
{
generate();
}
}

All you would have to do is setup your 10 different inputs and print the static code and dynamic code together to the file.

I suppose it would be better to have each set of the 10 entries in a database and then use perl or another scripting lanquage to grab the entries and generate all the html files. That way if you had to regenerate, you wouldn't have to type everything in again. Plus you use scripting to modify the database and regenerate with the new changes.

For the perl/database method, someone else should jump in, as I would not be much help there.