trigger has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi, i'm very new to perl, very... how can I make a simple news system for a static page with a comment section? where you log in as an admin and are confronted with news submissions form? i dont know much at all so...explain very thoroughly please...i dont know much at all with perl

using server side and stuff, so the news will look good too, not just slopped together, kind of like slashcode, but minus everything else and simpler than the slashcode news and comment system, please. i'm very new and would like to learn a lot more, slashcode was of no help to me, and i want to do something much simpler although easy, i know this is a large request, but please help

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Re: Static news system
by BBQ (Curate) on May 10, 2000 at 08:30 UTC
    updated: the poster managed to mangle his own post, but I backed up the history enough to salvage the original question below in italics

    hi, i'm very new to perl, very... how can I make a simple news system for a static page with a comment section? where you log in as an admin and are confronted with news submissions form? i dont know much at all so...explain very thoroughly please...i dont know much at all with perl

    using server side and stuff, so the news will look good too, not just slopped together, kind of like slashcode, but minus everything else and simpler than the slashcode news and comment system, please. i'm very new and would like to learn a lot more, slashcode was of no help to me, and i want to do something much simpler although easy, i know this is a large request, but please help
    Hey trigger, I learned most of my (albeit small) perl skillz by doing small projects exactly like the one you are describing.

    You're right when you say this is a big request, but I think you've come to the right place. The only problem is, we (monks) can't really be thorough with the breifing you just gave. There are a few details that will influence your news posting system project that will drastically change the application design. Could you answer the following questions?
    • Do you have a cgi-bin (or equivalent) at you're server / service provider?
    • Do you have a database such as MySQL or mSQL?
    • Can you run server side includes (SSI for short)?
    • Does your server / service provider run Unix or NT?
    • How often do you plan on updating?
    • How many people will be updating?
    • What is the minimum / maximum size for a post?
    • Do you have something up, a URL, that we can look at?
    Once we get those cleared, you'll have a better idea of what you want, and we'll be able to point you in the correct direction and even drop in some lines of code...

    #!/home/bbq/bin/perl
    # Trust no1!
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      the answer is yes to everything (for the hosting service i will be choosing), i dont know anything about mysql though, updated several times daily, 3-6 people will be updating it, sorry, nothing to look at now, i figured i should learn perl efficiently enough for me first before i really pursued the site itself much

      thanks a lot
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        whoa! chill dude! you're posting several replies to your own posts! (and you managed to cut off your own question) :o)

        Back to your problem, there is one question I didn't ask, and perhaps the most important of them all:
        do you really want to learn perl or do you want someone to do all of the work for you (ie: use seomthing that someone has already written)?

        You see, there are two ways one can go about this. Either we can point you to the right direction, and you can look at tutorials, sample code, docs, et al and you can post questions on whatever doubts you have (my definite choice if I were in your shoes).

        Or, we can point you to online script repositories where you can find semi-ready to go stuff. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the second approach, but you won't learn much on-the-job that you can use later.

        What will it be?
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Re: Static news system
by trigger (Initiate) on May 10, 2000 at 08:46 UTC
    sorry, i wasn't thinking...

    the answer is yes to everything, i dont know anything about mysql though, even though my service does have it, it will be updated several times daily, 3-6 people will be updating (probably 5) it, and i don't know about the minimum/maximum size...i guess something like slashdot for that or something...don't have anything to look at now, before i really get the site up i figured i should learn perl enough to satisfy me and stuff, it won't be up for a while
    thanks
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