Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:30:48 -0500 From: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/bin/calendar in cgi script Message-ID: <741100C7-213A-417F-8B0C-CDA3D3DD57E3@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <64c038660904121358r4f2e7282nc2bc09af7b94a7f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <251E39DC-2EEE-4E43-9B4C-3F273B19AD09@charter.net> <18912.60033.242203.912434@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <845EB734-909E-4B97-9ABD-8ABBADFA291B@charter.net> <64c038660904121358r4f2e7282nc2bc09af7b94a7f9@mail.gmail.com>
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Yes, I was reminded of the <pre> </pre> tags, and that solved it.
Thanks!
On Apr 12, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Modulok wrote:
> I don't know what program you're using for your CGI stuff, but
> basically all that is needed is the '<pre></pre>' tags. Here is an
> example which uses PHP to call the system 'calendar' command:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
> <title>Modulore Training Media</title>
> <body>
> <p>
> Hello world. Calling UNIX calendar program via PHP:
> <p>
> <pre>
> <?php
> system("calendar -f calendar.history");
> ?>
> </pre>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> On 4/11/09, Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Charles Howse writes:
>>>
>>>> Now, when I run that script in a terminal, the output is perfectly
>>>> formatted, multiple lines (if there are multiple events on this
>>>> date),
>>>> date first, event, year. Just right.
>>>>
>>>> But, when I put that in an "include" statement in a webpage, the
>>>> output is a single line, regardless of whether there are multiple
>>>> events.
>>>> You can see a bad example here:
>>>>
>>>> <http://bubbabbq.homeunix.net/history_cgi.shtml>;
>>>>
>>>> How can I make multiple events show on separate lines, like it
>>>> does in terminal?
>>>
>>> Would I be correct in believing you're unfamiliar with html?
>>
>> You would most certainly NOT BE CORRECT. I've had my own server
>> running Apache for years.
>>
>> I don't think this is something that can be solved with html tags,
>> but
>> I will try Brad's suggestions.
>> Read man calendar about how it uses cpp, and how the calendar.* files
>> are formatted.
>> If I recall, I used this same technique years ago and had a simple,
>> elegant way of solving it using some default tool like col, though
>> that doesn't seem to work now.
>>
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