[pmwiki-users] How to include input from external program

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Mar 30 16:20:38 CDT 2007


On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:42:36PM -0500, Russell Montgomery wrote:
> I have tried searching on this topic and cannot find any discussion on it.
> 
> I would like for my page to include in its display input from an 
> external program (perl scripts that return dates, times, Torah readings, 
> ... based on Hebrew dates) as part of the content.  Ideally the input 
> would be treated as any other wiki page so that the formatting could be 
> controlled by Wiki commands.

Perhaps a custom markup that uses PHP's system() or popen()
functions to capture the output of the external program(s)...?

Pm



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