Michael Meltzer wrote: > Thanks to all who answerd. > > When asking this question i did hope there is a script already.
It's too simple for a script (at least the basic editing part). > My special problem in this case is how can I present the user a previous message (if > it exists) and how can the user *edit* > this message. Is it possible to create a form whith a text block which the user may > change ? Of course - just a basic textarea tag in a form. <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/vacedit.pl"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pass" VALUE="2"> Edit your vaction mesage: <BR><TEXTAREA NAME="vacation_msg" ROWS="8" COLS="40">$msg</TEXTAREA> </FORM> On the first call to the script, pass won't be defined and you will return the form above with the file content in $msg. After editing (second call pass is defined and == 2), vacation_msg will contain the new text to write to the file. > I did up to now not start writing any line of code. Well, get to it and write an HTML form and a few lines of CGI to read the parameters into. Then all you need to do is open a file, read the contents into $msg and close the file. Later you can field the edited vacation msg in your CGI script and open the file for write and replace the old msg. You could create a vacation group and make the msg writeable by that group and run the CGI setuid to the group (make sure you authenticate the user). > I am just thinking about this problem and which modules to use. No modules needed unless you want to use CGI.pm > May be this question is very trivial and you are looking for greater problems (that > may arise later). Could be. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
