Working with scalar and htmldoc

[Louis Dufresne <ld...@123certification.com>]

Hi there!

I want to make pdf files using htmldoc who convert html files on the server
to pdf and send them to the browser but i can't use static html files. I
build my pages dynamically with embperl and data from a postgreSQL database.
As i saw all i have to do to make it happen is to pre-process 'scalar' to
another cgi that can generate the code and put it in a new html file before
it is send to the client... Am I right or there is a better way to do it? I
can't find any good explanations on how I can grab and work with THE scalar
variable. I know that I could use a cgi who would be happy to generate the
code but now that I have converted all my CGIs in embperl I still try to
find a way not to go backward... I know that I'll have to make a cgi to
manipulate scalar but do I really have to convert the embperl code in my
files that makes my html pages so nicelly for a month now or my cgi could
find a way to handle it, convert and execute the embperl code as it is,
built my files, so I could generate my pdfs and be happy?
My document are processed via embpcgi.cgi.

Thanks


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Re: Working with scalar and htmldoc

[Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>]

>
> I want to make pdf files using htmldoc who convert html files on the
server
> to pdf and send them to the browser but i can't use static html files.
>....
> My document are processed via embpcgi.cgi.
>

The Execute function allows you to get the result in a scalar.

Take the embpcgi.pl and replace the call to runcgi with the following code:

    my %req ;
    my $output ;
    ScanEnvironment (\%req) ;

    $req{'inputfile'} = $ENV{PATH_TRANSLATED} ;
    $req{'options'} |= optSendHttpHeader ;
    $req{'output'} = \$output ;

    $rc = HTML::Embperl::Execute (\%req) ;

After the excute call $output contains the result and you can pipe it thru
htmldoc

Gerald


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