Re: Wrapper configuration

Thanks Jim, that is a great help.

Best Regards

Jon

>From: Jim <[email protected]>
>To: Jon Sumpster <[email protected]>
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [htdig] Wrapper configuration
>Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:04:23 -0700 (MST)
>
>On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Jon Sumpster wrote:
>
>>I wonder if you might have any pointers for my situation; in our 
>>application, the 'wrapper' is an HTML page that's content is dynamically 
>>rendered when it's URL is called, and in which the appropriate content 
>>(such as links, images, styling etc.. which can change over time) is 
>>placed.
>
>I think that there are at least a couple ways to achieve the results that 
>you are looking for. More below.
>
>>the appropriate position); the only apparent alternative is to create a 
>>static wrapper page which resides in the common directory, but then that 
>>needs updating as the design of the site changes, something that I was 
>>hoping to avoid as it defeats the 'change once, apply everywhere' 
>>principle.
>
>Depending on the frequency with which updates occur, you might consider 
>setting up a cron job, or similar, that periodically retrieves the current 
>templates from the remote machine using something like curl, wget, scp, 
>etc. It is a bit of a kludge, but it might do the trick for infrequent 
>updates.
>
>>Is there perhaps a way that we can call the htsearch program to return a 
>>stream rather than an HTML page, which can then be manipulated and placed 
>>in the required position?
>
>Yes, I think that you could achieve this type of functionality with a 
>wrapper script. You would need something that accepted a query, called 
>htsearch behind the scenes, and then built the result page based on what 
>was returned by htsearch. If you strip the local templates of HTML and 
>leave only the variables you are interested in, you should be able to get 
>back something vaguely resembling a stream.
>
>If this sounds like it might be an option, take a look at the following.
>
>   http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Search-This/
>
>While it is not directly applicable, it should provide some insight into 
>how you might go about wrapping your call to htsearch. It also provides 
>examples of modified templates that support some other entity building the 
>final result page.
>
>Jim




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