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Re: [perl] tag is a cruel joke, and user-defined tags don't do jack , squat. HELP! How do I use Perl!?
OK first off chill out. Minivend is a great product. Yes it does take some time but from what I have imagined that it can do it is well worth the learning curve. It seems to handle perl just fine from my perl guys workings. I am not a programmer but I had a guy in the office write me a few scripts and they worked fine without any hassle for him. Well if you haven't deleted this message yet then here is some code that should work just fine (although I haven't tried it):
[perl interpolate=1]
my $out = '';
$out = 'Hello There';
$out;
[/perl]
OK so I tried it & it works just fine.
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Brian Kohles
brian@mediabang.com
minivend@mediabang.com
brian@8fish.com
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:16:18PM -0400, Colocator User wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from Colocator User <minivend@twu.net> ******
>
> Hey there MiniVend gurus--
>
> Just started with the program, and I'm trying to utilize a Perl
> script I've written from within a MiniVend page. The [perl] tag is a cruel
> joke; you can't use backticks (due to that stupid Safe module, which I'd
> rather not turn off if I don't have to) or even print statements (!!!!!);
> all you can use seems to be setting and returning variables, which is
> unacceptable. I need more than that!
>
> I tried to define the Perl I want as a user tag. It did squat.
> First of all, the syntax listed on the Web site for defining a user tag is
> horrible-- MiniVend chokes on it when starting up. Secondly, when I
> finally DID find a way of arranging the damned curly-braces so that it
> wouldn't puke on my user tag, the user tag did SQUAT!
>
> They say the best way to learn is by example. Could someone give
> me an example-- or more than one example-- of a way to display the output
> of:
>
> print "Hi there";
>
> ...in a MiniVend page?
>
> Flames or "RTFM"s will be passed on to /dev/null. Please give me a
> real answer.
>
> Incidentally, the MiniVend FAQ ***SUCKS***. Perhaps something more
> like the Perl FAQ is in order-- where it's more of an "all questions we've
> been asked that have a simple--or even a not-so-simple-- answer" list than
> a "frequently asked questions" list. The MiniVend FAQ only answers the
> simplest of stupid questions...
>
>
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