calling ipl from tpl fles

lucifer

i have written an ipl file that has a function generateURL().
i need to call this function from a tpl file . could any body help me out in this regard

Migrateduser

Well... this can be done. Its as simple as doing something like:

<iw_perl><![CDATA[

my $return_val = `yourperl.ipl`;

]]>
</iw_perl>

The above however is probably not what you want. You would probably be better off turning your code in the .ipl into a perl module rather than execing the perl script as a system call..

The code for that would look something closer to:

<iw_perl><![CDATA[

use MyModule;
my $return_val = MyModule::yourperl();

]]>
</iw_perl>

Keep in mind however that if your module/ipl prints out things that you want to end up in your tpl output you will need to look at the tags/modules that are provided with iw-perl for templating. and either use those in your module/ipl or have it returned so you can use iwpt_output (part of the iw_perl module)

please examine the presentation template perldocs and the faq located here for more info:

http://support.interwoven.com/library/devel/tst/pt/

Edited by nacks on 09/15/02 00:54 AM (server time).