PicLan-IP Dynamic Web Content

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4. Inserting Main-Line MV/Basic Code Into an HTML Page

In order to insert embedded MV/Basic code into your HTML page, perform the following steps:

At the bottom of the document, start a "pre-formatted paragraph"
Insert the string PicLan-IP/BASIC { } as the first line

You must specify this string exactly. Even the capitalization must match for the PicLan-IP web server to process the page as active content.
The delimiter characters must be preceeded by a space and must have a space between the two delimiters.

Write your MV/Basic code

Be sure that the BASIC code is all contained within a single HTML pre-formatted paragraph. With some HTML editors this requires you to terminate lines with <shift>ENTER.

At the end of the BASIC code, simply end the preformatted paragraph.

The tag PicLan-IP/BASIC is used by the PicLan-IP Web Server to identify the start of embedded MV/Basic code within a web page. The two strings that follow the PicLan-IP/BASIC string tell the PicLan-IP Web Server what characters you are going to use to surround merge insertion points elsewhere on the page (more on this later). Most "normal" pages will use { and } as the inertion characters. If you write pages that include JavaScript, then you will want to use different strings such as | and | (note that is is perfectly acceptible for the opening and closing insertion characters to be the same character).

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