[MacPerl] FileMaker Pro & Output DB

[Scott Crumpton <scott@moriah.com>]

Two questions:

I downloaded the new version of MaPerl. When I chose help the 
application said it needed a POD helper. Note, I'm REALLY new to this 
stuff. So, I told Internet Config to use Netscape. When it opened 
Netscape it attempted to open pod://...... which didn't work. I changed 
"pod" to "file" in the URL and it opened it as a text document.

Do I need to somehow convert the files? The last version didn't require 
any of this so I'm a little confused. Any help would be appreciated.

Also,
We publish a directory of Bed & Breakfast Inns. We place the description 
of each inn from our printed edition on html pages (example: 
http://www.moriah.com/ncoast.html ). These originate from our FileMaker 
Pro database. Since I'm using a Unix server I can't use the majority of 
options out there for serving FMPro files.

What I would like to do (I think) is to save my records to an 
associative array, with the inn name and description, that can be 
searched for key words. This would then spit out a list of inn names as 
links which could be clicked on. The links could either be an existing 
html page or one created on the fly -- depending. What I want to avoid 
doing is having to create a web page for each inn. Instead, I would 
rather return their text much the way a database returns only the 
records you wish.

Anyway, any ideas on this subject? Am I trying to make a complicated 
issue too easy or is it a fairly simple process. I attempted searching 
an associative array but failed which is when I found out my help files 
weren't working :-|

I know this is a general perl question but I figured Mac users would be 
more aware of FMPro and able to give some sound advice (other than get a 
Mac server :-)

Thanks in advance,

Scott
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