SID-00790: Add a button that opens a perl script

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.1.2	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryAutomation	Server OS:	RHEL 4.8 kernel 2.6.9-89	Last update:	15 years ago

Hello, we are using svn as a collaboration tool, and some of the documents we write in svn are copied to Twiki and should be synchronized. We already have a perl script that updates the content of Twiki pages with latest modifications from svn. What I would like to have now is a "Refresh" button on a Twiki page. When a user would click on this button the perl script would be called to refresh the Twiki pages with latest svn content. How do I create such a command? I'm very new to Twiki, I've played a little bit with text editing commands but I don't know a lot about it!

-- SophiePasquier - 2010-03-22

Discussion and Answer

Create a CGI wrapper for your script. See Google:perl+hello+world+cgi . From that script you can call your update script. For example, in Perl you can invoke an external script using backticks, such as: my $output = `/var/www/tools/update_stuff.pl`;

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-03-22

Thanks a lot Peter!

-- SophiePasquier - 2010-03-25

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