Facebook Application

Wed Dec 16 07:48:16 PST 2009

Fairlight wrote Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:11 AM:

> mtauber19 at comcast.net blabbed on about:
> > I am working on a facebook application using fpcgi. I need 
> the first 
> > two lines of the html document rendered by the fpcgi program to be
> > 
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
> > xmlns:fb="http://www.wzhu.devrs002.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
> > 
> > When I use the filepro command: 
> > 
> > html "1" :CR @pw{".htm" :TI "Title" 
> > 
> > The page that is rendered has the html tag rendered as <html>
> > 
> > I would appreciate any suggestions to resolve this. 
> 
> Rntirely give up on fP's HTML pseudo-markup language.  At 
> -best-, it's HTML 3.2, and even then it's not complete.
> 
> Use open/writeline/close and just output the correct code at 
> the low level as you assemble it.
> 
> mark->
> --

My 5.0.14 online help shows  a :dt option to the HTML :cr command 
and it also shows a :tx option (which should just output whatever 
you say still inside the <HTML tag).  But I don't know if output from 
using those, if they work as expected, would satisfy the need of 
the application (even if the tags were not exactly as you specified).

I usually open the output document with HTML :cr and then issue nothing 
but html :tx commands thereafter, until a html :cl to close the file.
(This keeps you from having to learn most of the native fp html 
commands, but does not address your problem.

Therefore, I agree with Mark.  Especially in this case - why fight with 
a new language when you just need to have filePro output the lines 
exactly as they have been already specified for you.  Of course 
if you already have a lot of other code in the filePro-HTML-command
format, then you might want to see if you can get the options to 
"HTML :cr" working for you.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.