Autogenerated templates on server.

[gabrielcrowe]

When actinic builds, it makes several templaces, that perl scripts use to display such things as search results and linked items.

is there a full list of these someplace?

[I-CC]

The templates that are used to build the pages from primary right through to individual elements of drop downs and the like is available from a tabbed listing of them under Advanced | Template Manager.

Differing primary templates are listed within Design | Options | Layouts.

[Bruce]

Gabriel,

There is no documented list available. You can replicate what Actinic does by manually doing it in the Advanced menu, 'Generate Scripts' and 'Generate Web Site'.

Generate Scripts would generate
nq000001.pl
ms000001.pl
ca000001.pl
os000001.pl
bb000001.pl
ss000001.pl
sh000001.pl
md000001.pl
al000001.pm
ad000001.pm
as000001.pm
di000001.pm
ae000001.pm
ao000001.pm

Generate Web Site
Results of this will be found in the 'Site HTML' folder. While refreshing or updating the site, actinic also regenertates the .cat and the .fil files. These are used by the perl files in searches etc.

Kind regards,

[gabrielcrowe]

thats not quite what i meant.

i understand the basic inner workings, but what i';m interested are the pages that several perl scripts call upon to furnish them with data.

for instance, ss000009.p does not contain data for display of the page, it only generates the results and places them in a template, stored on the server, as flat html, what is it?

similarly, several other scripts pull html data, to use in their display of the reaults/data. what are they, i cant find them anyplace.

[wjcampbe]

I would expect to find the data, and its layout in the cat files - am I right?

[gabrielcrowe]

no, lol, but its fine, it's confusing me too.

go to your cgi bin and fetch the file ss00000x.pl

look through it in a text editor.

find the line:

my $sFilename = $sPath . "results.html";

this one, i found myself, and this "results.html" is generated by actinic and saved in the acatalog folder, only ever to be called by this perl script to display results of a search in. but several parts of my catalog have mutated displays, perls i/o sidesteps the server side includes on my page, mutating the search and other pages. not good :(

i have been looking for a complete list of these 'perl templates'.

[wjcampbe]

OK - so a desktop search for the text ".html" in files with the extension .pl inside the SiteHTML folder might work for you?

[gabrielcrowe]

i spend that much time scouring the solution, for a complex problem i'd invented, and the simple, more elegant solution, is sometimes so obvious, its invisible.

good plan, and i got them all. i'll post their names in the morning when i can use the keyboard properly.