Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!newsfeeds.nerdc.ufl.edu!news.magicnet.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.corridex.com!nntp2.savvis.net!inetarena.com!not-for-mail From: David Coppit Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Announcing Daily Update 5.0 -- integrate dynamic data from the internet Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 7 Jan 1999 19:42:42 GMT Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 27 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <7732ni$6gr$1@play.inetarena.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: halfdome.holdit.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:216 comp.lang.perl.misc:57733 Daily Update 5.0 grabs dynamic information from the internet and integrates it into your webpage. You specify special HTML tags in a template file, which then get replaced by the acquired data. It's also easy to extend the script to handle new data sources. Features include timeouts to handle dead servers without hanging the script, user-defined update times, modular and extensible design, and compatibility with cgi-wrap. To see example output, go to http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/daily.html Available (soon) on CPAN at: http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/D/DC/DCOPPIT/ Documentation and most recent version is at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q/code/DailyUpdate/index.html David _________________________________________________________________________ David Coppit - Graduate Student coppit@cs.virginia.edu The University of Virginia http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~dwc3q "For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me" - Winnie the Pooh .