NAME
Taco - Dynamic web page system
SYNOPSIS
# In a dynamic document
<title>[[$user_id]]s web page</title>
Here are your favorite foods:<br>
[[&list(driver=foods for_user=[[$user_id]] display_template=food_template)]]
# For serving Taco web pages, put in httpd.conf
PerlModule Apache::Taco
<Files ~ "\.taco$">
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Taco
</Files>
# For parsing stand-alone files, type at Unix prompt
parse_file.pl [-s service] [-q query_string] filenameDESCRIPTION
Taco is a software tool which facilitates the creation of dynamic webpages. It's meant to run under the Apache web server, using the mod_perl extension.
A Taco page is just like a regular HTML page, with one important addition: a Taco page can contain Taco tags. When a user requests a Taco page, the Taco software finds all the Taco tags on the page and replaces them with the appropriate text. This text can come from a database, from a discussion group, or from the query string of the Taco page, among other places.
In fact, Taco itself doesn't define the functions you can have in a web page. Rather, the functionality is encapsulated in modules, which can be plugged into Taco. You can write your own modules or use common ones that are already written. The most basic module functionality is in the Taco::Generic.pm module, which is distributed with the main Taco distribution. All modules, including Taco::Generic, are sub-classes of Taco::Module.
For more documentation, please see the other modules in this distribution. See Taco::Module for a description of the syntax of the tags (how to use them in a web page), or instructions on how to write your own Taco module. See any module's documentation for a description of the specific tags it defines.
AUTHOR
Ken Williams (ken@forum.swarthmore.edu)
Copyright (c) 1998 Swarthmore College. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
perl(1).