[ic] Taking a Poll

[Ron Dorman]

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Dan B wrote:

> At 08:21 AM 4/20/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dan B wrote :
> > > For example, wouldn't it be great if there were a tool that took an IML
> > > page and converted it to the equivalent perl?
> >
> >I don't get it. Was this sarcasm ?
>
> No.
>
> >Why in world would you want to change the tags back to Perl ? This would
> >mean that the tags are superfluous and that you had less difficulties
> >with IC if it were completely written in Perl.
>
> If one were trying to do some things that wasn't supported by the IML tags,
> or you needed to do a bunch of perl stuff that integrated tightly with
> other tags, in my opinion it *would* be valuable to know the equivalent perl.
>
> Knowing what the equivalent perl was, one could substitute a given block of
> IML tags with the equivalent perl, then customize that perl more
> easily.  For example, if one were trying to do some advanced things with
> [query], one could run the code through the proverbial "IML->perl
> translator" and then customize the query to your perl coder's content.  For
> example:
>
> [query list=1 sql=|
>          SELECT  sku
>          FROM    products | ]
>          [query-param sku]
> [/query]
>
> would translate to something like:
>
> my $dbh = $SQL{products}
>          or return HTML "Database not shared.";
> my $query = <<EOF;
> SELECT sku FROM products
> EOF
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare($query)
>          or return HTML "Couldn't open database.";
> $sth->execute();
> my $array = $sth->fetchall_arrayref();
> for(@$array) {
>          HTML qq{$array->[0]};
> }
>
> So that one could take the resulting perl and customize it to your hearts
> content.  Later,
>
> Dan Browning, Cyclone Computer Systems, danb@cyclonecomputers.com
>
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