Re: Re: SSI/Database questions

Ok, I'll try using that snippet to get my counter to work. Do you have to program around SSI (like do you need to know ahead of time how to write it if you plan on using SSI or would a premade counter just assumidly(wd?) work?).

Use CGI, lol, I kind of love when people say that. You don't know exactly what you're looking for but they send you to a documentation which is like 100 pages in length :P I'll take a look, it's probably something fairly obvious.

Awesome, looks like MySQL will never have to be used with any of my scripts then. That's a relief cause I've never even been able to open a MySQL database on my server, I'll definately stick with SDBM as that seems to be working great so far.

Thanks for your help Lacertus!

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Re: Re: Re: SSI/Database questions by pfaut (Priest) on Mar 27, 2003 at 02:49 UTC
If you're having trouble figuring out how to use CGI from its documentation, start here in the Tutorials section. There are several pages that will help you get started with CGI. The most important parts of CGI are its parsing if incoming data, not the HTML generation stuff. My personal opinion is that generation is better handled with templates but CGI is indispensible for retrieving submitted data. For that, about all you need to know is `$query->param("fieldname")`. If you can access a real database, I'd recommend it over SDBM files. I think they're much easier to work with and are certainly more flexible. `--- print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':''; $m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) } split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Re: SSI/Database questions
by pfaut (Priest) on Mar 27, 2003 at 02:49 UTC

If you're having trouble figuring out how to use CGI from its documentation, start here in the Tutorials section. There are several pages that will help you get started with CGI. The most important parts of CGI are its parsing if incoming data, not the HTML generation stuff. My personal opinion is that generation is better handled with templates but CGI is indispensible for retrieving submitted data. For that, about all you need to know is $query->param("fieldname").

If you can access a real database, I'd recommend it over SDBM files. I think they're much easier to work with and are certainly more flexible.

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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