Perl Widgets 1

[spperl]

Hi,

I'm looking to create web widgets using perl so that other sites can easily integrate them. I've looked at the perl module JSON however I've had trouble implementing across different domains.

Ideally I would want its usage to be like that of integrating google maps etc... i.e. a javascript / AJAX call and bingo everything you want is there.

From reading this you can tell that I am no expert however I'm really just looking for pointers on where to look and get started. I would start off with a simple hello world widget and move on from there!

Any help would be appreciated and thanks for reading this,
spperl

 

[Kirsle]

Ajax won't work cross-domain due to browser security restrictions.

Have you tried something like this: have the users of your widget paste a JavaScript link to your domain? e.g.

theirdomain.com pastes code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="[URL unfurl="true"]http://yourdomain.com/widget.cgi?params=values"></script>[/URL]

And the 'widget.cgi' on your server accepts query string parameters (for instance, if you were making a map widget, it could accept an address or latitude/longitude coordinates)... your widget CGI works its magic, and eventually writes out some JavaScript code, that would create HTML elements so that your widget could be inserted onto the user's page.

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perl -e '$|=$i=1;print" oo\n<|>\n_|_";x:sleep$|;print"\b",$i++%2?"/":"_";goto x;'

 

[spperl]

Thank you for this info... have a star !