Creating bulletin boards, chat rooms and mail messages with RR/MC and CGI Have anyone implemented bulletin board systems, chat rooms and personal mail messages using server cgi and Metacard?
I think it's possible to create these collaborative tools with RR/MC and server cgi's, but i'm not aware of every detail that such systems must cover to be reliable and expandible. For example, the bulletin board could be an html text file that is loaded in a field. In this case every user will simply appends html text to the text file. A chat system appends this html text in real time and sends this html file to every user connected, or it's the software client whom request the file. I believe that some java based chat systems works that way. The web browser refresh the text fields a fixed amount of times, no matter if anyone had not posted new messages. This is some kind of loop... Right? A personal mail system is something a little more complicated, i guess. But maybe, it's just a matter of making the user client to see ONLY the html messages that they send or receive. Maybe all these messages must be inside a personal folder in the server. Did i oversimplify the requirements to create these collabaration tools? Any insights are welcome. al ===== Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Search the mail list: http://mindlube.com/cgi-bin/search-use-rev.cgi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
