PERL and external stylesheets

I have been trying to get a small script to generate an HTML page. I want one line of the page have a link to an external CSS file. I tried using:

PRINT "<link.....>\n";

to enter the line of code into the new file. I get no errors but I don't get the style either. I have done a Google search on this topic. There are several references I found that show using CGI.pm functions to do this. The SA of my site, though, says that using CGI.pm is unnecessary. Which is correct?

Jun 14 '07 #1

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KevinADC

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if you are using 'PRINT', that is wrong. All native perl functions are lowercase: 'print'.

Printing a link to a style sheet using a fully qualified url:

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 print qq~<LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="http://www.yoursite.com/style/style.css" MEDIA="screen">\n~;
 

Printing a link to a style sheet using a relative url:

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 print qq~<LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="../style/style.css" MEDIA="screen">\n~;
 
 

You can use the CGI module too. If you are already using the CGI module you may as well stick with that.

Jun 14 '07 #2

Bluejay906

Here is the code I am trying to get to work properly. I made the change you suggested:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;

#definition of variables

$db="gcai";

$host="localhost";

$user="gcai";

$password="ttaajj";

#connect to MySQL database

my $dbh   = DBI->connect ("DBI:mysql:database=$db:host=$host",

                          $user,

                          $password)

                          or die "Can't connect to database: $DBI::errstr\n";

#prepare the query

my $sth = $dbh->prepare( "

              SELECT *

              FROM employees");
 
#execute the query

$sth->execute( );
 
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";

print "<HTML>\n";

print "<HEAD><TITLE>Hello World!</TITLE>";

#print "<LINK REL='StyleSheet' HREF='compass.css' TYPE='text/css'>\n";

print qq~<LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="compass.css" MEDIA="screen">\n~;

print "</HEAD>\n";

print "<BODY>\n";

print "<H2>Hello World!</H2>\n";

print "<H2>Following is a Perl db example:</H2>\n";
 
while ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array( ) )  {

         print "<BR>@row</BR>\n";

}
 
print "</BODY>\n";

print "</HTML>\n";

The page is not formatted by the stylesheet. What am I doing wrong?

Jun 16 '07 #3

KevinADC

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Expert 2GB

the style sheet can not be in the cgi-bin, which I think is where you have it judging by the relative url:

HREF="compass.css"

put the style sheet in a different folder, one with regular http access, and use the relative url to that folder:

HREF="../style/compass.css"

where "style" is the name of the folder the compas.css file is in.

Jun 17 '07 #4

Bluejay906

I had originally coded it to the CSS directory, but I moved it into the CGI-BIN when it didn't work. I did yhat you suggested and it worked. Thanks.

Jun 28 '07 #5

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