On Tuesday 07 February 2006 04:26 pm, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
Hello,
I apologize for asking what may be a dump question or one that has been answered before, i have searched the archive and the web for an answer but maybe i am looking for the wrong terms, i can't find what I'm trying to figure out.
I have written a cgi that generates html. I would very much like to make this cgi be a node in drupal, or if thats not possible maybe a "block"? I just would like to have my cgi generate the center of the home page with drupal blocks around it, and then any click on the drupal blocks replaces my cgi content with whatever would normally be there, and any clicks in my cgi remain in that area of the screen. Normally I would use a frame but everything I find about frames and drupal says "Dont Do It".
Am I missing something terribly obvious, or is this impossible, or am I just slow today?
Thanks for any advice -Aaron
It seems to me that something should be possible, however I am not experienced enough to offer anything other than shots in the dark. I have no idea if it would work or not, but what I would try is to create a node that had full PHP filtering on and use some sort of PHP exec funtion:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php
Maybe shell_exec()?