Forum OpenACS Q&A: Details of how to do replicate Loquacious

I'm not sure what exactly Loquacious does on Philip's server, but here's one way to work it. To push dynamic content onto a non-OpenACS server's static page, you carve a spot in the static page by placing this Javascript snippet:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2">
<!--

with (document) {
write("<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.2' SRC='http://yourserver.com/yourtcl.tcl'>");
write("</SCRIPT>");
}

//-->
</SCRIPT>

Just do whatever DB stuff you want and append everything into a string and then ns_write it out at the end of the yourtcl.tcl page on your OpenACS site, thus:

set result [getallmyinfo ... ]
ns_write "document.write('$result');"

Thats all there is to it. I'm amazed.