On 17 Aug 98, at 21:41, Michael A. Stone wrote:
> i'm trying to pound the CGI library for the network i manage into
> set of scripts, built from the same code base, which cover the range of
> services 90% of my users will actually want to put in place.
Not sure if I really understand but what the hell.
Seems you want to create a set of scripts that all users can access
with little future work from you. If they want to use a script then
they
go to the help page which tells them how to set it up. I had this
years
ago at cris.com (they had a great webmaster or somebody).
Thing is to set all variables in html pages. CGI's should determine
who
is whom from path variable. Might also want to create a database of
users
(given path you can then get their email etc. and if they don't give
values in html then you can use those or whatever).
I think the most common requested functions are:
receive input from form via email. This is very easy to do easily.
I
would allow user to create template for errors,template for thank-
you,
template for email that would be sent. Who to send it to should be
in the
html file as a hidden field. OF COURSE you must check that this
request
is coming from a user on your system. Most people, myself included, do
not know how to fake the http-referer so I think you can use that.
A bulletin board. I noticed that chat was very popular according to
Javilks log analysis page. It is very popular on my sites as well. I get
more visitors looking for chat than anything else (as far as searches go).
Again, you can go the template route.
If you set those 2 scripts up, with full templates, then I think you might
find most people satisfied.
I always have a "common.cgi" which contains all the common routines.
Most of the work I mentioned above would be creating the help files
to show users how to use it all.
Peter
if this didn't help, oh well.
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Free CGI Scripts and Applications
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Exercise Your Brain..Read a Book http://www.rede.com/
Free CGI Scripts and Applications
http://www.rede.com/samples/index.html
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