Hello, currently I use SSI's to call the menu / footer of my site, but since this data changes very little I thought it would be better to do it in PERL and save some server load.

Anyone have suggestions on how to do this? I'll admit now that I don't know anything about PERL.

Thanks much for any assistance.

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As far as I can tell you're not going to save any real "server load". Using SSI the server must locate the header & footer files, add them to your html and send it off. PERL and PHP will purty much do the same thing -- you run a program to generate the webpage and send it off. Either way, the server must process the files.

It's also harder with PERL...

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Walt, that's true, but I think that PHP and ASP are more flexible than the CGI languages. You rarely see a page with extension .pl or .cgi, unless it's a page that absolutely needs it (message board, form submit). Webmasters who use Perl use it as sparingly as possible and always in conjuction with HTML, whereas PHP is regularly used for templates (and it's not unusual to see a site with all PHP pages).

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I'm not well enough versed in Perl vs PHP/ASP to be sure but from what I see Perl is just as if not more flexible -- it's just not as easy to code and maintain for web because it wasn't written with the web in mind like the others.

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hey good info