Re: straight forward Oracle unix web solution sought

From: John Russell <netnews4_at_johnrussell.mailshell.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:48:32 GMT
Message-ID: <sap7ouk5dlchcm02huvuhofne96c25up3g@4ax.com>

On 13 Sep 2002 14:25:06 GMT, catherinedevlin_at_removethispart.toast.net wrote:
>The most basic to set up would be the Oracle web toolkit. You put mod_plsql
>in with your Apache webserver, configure a Database Access Descriptor, and
>write PL/SQL procedures that generate the HTML pages you want. There was a
>good article on this by Daniel Liu in the 4th Qtr 2001 SELECT magazine. The
>only trouble here is that you can't just write a page with HTML tags, you
>write a procedure that contains calls to OWA toolkit procedures that generate
>tags. It's hard to look at a PL/SQL procedure and visualize the webpage it
>will make.

For the parts that don't change, you can write out the equivalent of "HERE" documents in Perl. E.g.,

htp.p('

<html>
<head>
<title>My page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is my page.

');

John Received on Sat Sep 14 2002 - 20:48:32 CDT