[Templates] CGI/TT vs SSI

08 Oct 2003 08:51:15 -0400

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 08:29, Tosh Cooey wrote:
> The SSI approach would have to parse all .html as well as all .pl :
> .html
> <html>
> stuff...
> <!--#include virtual="/menu.cgi" -->
> </html>
> 
> .tt/.cgi
> <html>
> stuff...
> [% TTfun %]
> <!--#include virtual="/menu.cgi" -->
> </html>

If you aren't using mod_perl 2, it's going to be a pain to get your CGI
output processed for SSI calls, but it can be done with the help of
Apache::Filter or one of the CGI+SSI modules on CPAN.

> The CGI/TT approach would have to treat all HTML documents as templates

That's the problem right there: all of your static HTML will get sucked
into every mod_perl process and you'll end up chewing through all your
RAM.  For this reason, the first approach is better.

- Perrin