NAME

Merge - Embedded HTML/SQL/Perl system by Raz Information Systems.

INSTALLATION

After installing the package, activate mergecreateinstance to create an instance in your cgi-bin (or modperl) directory. Follow the directions you get from mergecreateinstance in order to configure your web server.

You must edit the merge.conf created for you.

SYNOPSIS

        <HTML>
        <$RQ.'SELECT * FROM customers'>
        <$RLOOP>
        <$RVAR.name> owes <$RVAR.debt><BR>
        </$RLOOP>
        <A HREF="/cgi-bin/merge.pl?template=main_menu.html">
        </HTML>

DESCRIPTION

Merge is an embedded HTML/Perl/SQL tool used to create dynamic web content. All Merge pages are refered to by cgi-bin-dir/merge.pl?template=file.html although on CGI mode you can define merge.pl as an handler with the Action directive in Apache.

Using merge.pl under Apache::Registry will utilize Perl's built-in caching to cache pages using the do command.

Merge uses a configuration file to retrieve information about database connectivity and debugging. It has an embedded debugging tool and on-line configuration. To turn that option on, set DEVELOPMENT to 1 in the configuration file. Don't forget to set it off before deployment.

Alternate configuration files can appear in /etc/merge.conf and $HOME/.merge.

FILES

        B<merge.pl> Main script, usually a symbolic link to each instance.

        B<merge.conf> Configuration, unique per each instance.

        B<$PREFIX/share/merge/private> Internal scripts.

        B<$PREFIX/bin/merge.cgi> Main script, central.

        B<$PREFIX/bin/merge.conf> Template for configuration files.

        B<$PREFIX/bin/mergecreateinstance> Instance creating script.

AUTHOR

Initial design by Oded Resnik, oded@raz.co.il.
Versions 1 and 2 written by Roi Illouz, roi@raz.co.il.
Version 3 written by Ariel Brosh, ariel@raz.co.il.
Toolbox written by Eial Solodki.

COPYRIGHT

This package is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself, see the Artistic License on Perl's home page.