Swish-e

From: Phil Matt <philm(at)not-real.frontiernet.net> Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 16:47:29 GMT

Bill Moseley wrote:

> Which templating output system are you using?  The default one?
> 
I started with TemplateDefault, and modified it.
> 

> And, as you can see, that's calling the CGI.pm's script_name()
> function directly to set the action, just like above.  The point is,
> Apache is running the script in the first place, so it knows the URL of
> the path.
> 
> So, unless you run the script from document root, I can't think of
> anyway it set the action to /swish.cgi.

Well, I am getting a bit confused, but I am glad it works with the proper path set.

>  Are you saying
> TemplateDefault.pm was installed in /usr/local/lib/swish-e/perl/?
> If so, please let me know exactly what version of swish-e you installed.
No, it was installed to the proper subdir.

> But, yes, TemplateDefault.pm is suppose to be installed in 
> 
>    $PREFIX/lib/swsih-e/perl/SWISH/
> 
> But the "use lib" line is also suppose to be:
> 
>    use lib '$PREFIX/lib/swish-e/perl';
> 
> without the "SWISH" part because the module's name is:
> 
>    SWISH::TemplateDefault;
> 
> When the script loads that module is combines the two paths:
> 
>    $PREFIX/lib/swish-e/perl + SWISH::TemplateDefault
> 
> to come up with:
> 
>     $PREFIX/lib/swish-e/perl/SWISH/TemplateDefault.pm

Got it.

I am using CSS to format the output from TemplateDefault.pm, and loaded the 
appropriate stylesheet at this point in the module:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
    <head>
<link rel= "stylesheet" type="text/css" href= "/scripts/navmenu.css">
<link rel= "stylesheet" type="text/css" href "/scripts/sitestyle.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/nnav.js"></script>
<title>$html_title</title></head>
    <body>
        <h2>
        $logo$title $message
        </h2>
EOF
}

#==================================================================
===
# This generates the form

etc.

Styles called later in the script, for instance, on the table structure that contains 
$query_simple, $search_time, etc. work as expected.

When I turned to the routine that formats each single result, specifically the <dl> that 
handles the listing of each result, I find that styles called do not work, although I can 
declare:  

<dd style="width:65%; background-color: #DCEDED">

and the styling works as expected. If I use "<dd class="mystyle"> or <dd id="mystyle"> 
the styling isn't applied.

Cheers --- Phil Matt

Swish-e

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