Re: CGI programs in ILE RPG

["Rick Baird" <rbbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

We tried that at first too.  The problem is that it is VERY hard to make 
changes to the html, and test them quickly.

What I ended up doing is to develop the pages on a pc, then use client access 
to move them to source files on the 400.

my programs override to the appropriate member, then they read the source file, 
looking for substitution data.

If they need major changes, I then copy them back to the pc to change.

to make it all work, I used html comment tags to represent my substitution 
tags.  The reason I use comment tags is so that my
replacement tags don't show up on the web page when I'm testing the strait html 
stuff.

for example, the file contains these lines:

<p>Thank you for purchasing the
<!--*PLAN    -->Gold
Coverage Plan.</p>

the program looks for '<!--*PLAN ' in the 1st 10 bytes, and substitutes the 
actual plan description for the entire line.  

When the file on the pc is displayed in a browser, it shows "Gold".

Sometimes, I tag whole sections:

<!--*QUES3  -->  I  have selected the optional $0 
<!--*QUES3  --> deductible</font></td>
<!--*QUES3  --> <td align="RIGHT">

In this case, the data outside the <!--( )--> is only output if they had 
previously marked a check box.  

If you like, I can send you an example or two.

HTH,

Rick

The 
David Gibbs wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm playing around with a CGI program in RPG to display some
> information from our application as a web page... I'm curious as to
> what approach people are using to build the HTML that the CGI program
> generates.
> 
> Currently, I've got the HTML defined as a compile-time array and I'm
> just kicking through the array, substituting field data in
> placeholders in the array.  Kinda like... send lines 1 through 5,
> setup line 6, send line 6, setup line 7, send line 7, setup line 8,
> etc...
> 
> While it works fine, it's quite tedious... are there better
> approaches?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> david
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