Calling a perl script from within vortex

[Thunderstone]

Hi,

(1) What I want to do is have a search results page
with search results from a perl-written search
engine, followed by the webinator search results.

Is it possible to do this? If so, how can
the search form be setup to accomplish this?
(Can vortex pass on variables to the perl script
and have it return the results, and display those
results?)

(2) Alternatively, is it possible for a third (different) cgi script
to call both search engines (the perl-based and webinator)
and have it arrange the results on the same search results
page? How would I accomplish this? Please provide some amount
of details, thanks!

If none of the above ways work, what is the best way
in your opinion? Again, thank you very much.

-Neuron

[Thunderstone]

http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/demos/meta/

is an example of collecting output from multiple searches. It is pretty
much what you want. It passes the query to the various other searches
and displays their results in a standardized format. You just need to
teach it the output format of your other search. You can use the "build
a new parser" link to help you do that.