Is it possible to include a) Perl Module b)cached HTML file

[memobug]

Perl?

1. Is it possible to include a Perl program as a module? or as Custom Page Content?

Including a Cached HTML file?...

2. Is there an easy way to get a simple HTML file into a module? I know I could copy it into a template, but it's changed dynamically every 15 minutes, so I really can't.

It's a cached news.html file on my server generated by a news script. I have the feeling there should be an easier way than what I am doing, which is nasty: using a PHP module to read it in, store it in a variable and print it out with another template. Nasty! There has to be a better way!

Regards,

Matt

[memobug]

*bump*

This is a question for Brian, I'm sure???

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[Brian]

If you can have the perl module update the database instead and pull the info from that then that might work well, but you cannot currently use perl files as modules.

[memobug]

Okay thanks I may try that! Any ideas about the second question?

2. Is there an easy way to get a simple HTML file into a module? I know I could copy it into a template, but it's changed dynamically every 15 minutes, so I really can't.

It's a cached news.html file on my server generated by a news script. I have the feeling there should be an easier way than what I am doing, which is nasty: using a PHP module to read it in, store it in a variable and print it out with another template. Nasty! There has to be a better way!

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[Brian]

As far as I know there's not a better way (other than maybe having that update a template instead of a file). I've never really had a use or a need to do something like that though, so there probably are some ways that I'm just not aware of.

[phoenixdown]

erwin released a hack on vb.org that intergrates various files types including html into vb... maybe a combo of that and a blank cmps module?