[Zope] How to mix perl and dtml

[Schut, Koos (Koos)]

Hi all,

Situation:
I have a fairly strong background in perl. I've lots of custom perl-tools on
an Informix-database unix-machine on which I have the zope web-server
running now. What I want is to create some web-pages, displaying information
as distilled from the database. This destillation, I can do easily with
perl. I view the zope web-pages from a different PC.

Questions:
How do I create a zope method to actually run a perl destillaton-process and
have the result in a Zope web-page?

What I can do is write perl-scripts which even create html-code. What I do
not know is how to call the perl-stuff from a zope-page, and get the results
in a zope html-page. Reading the different docs, it is clear that it should
be possible.

Can anyone give me some clever hints here?

Cheers,
Koos.

J.J. Schut
Integration Specialist
Avaya
The Former Enterprise Networks Group of Lucent Technologies
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