Re: Is CGI On-Topic

AM, Here's a list that may help:

CGI:
- if your cgi is written is perl - on topic
- if your cgi is written in php or vb or c or ruby or anything other than perl - off topic
HTML:
- if your HTML is constructed with perl - on topic
- if your HTML is constructed with php or vb or c or ruby or anything other than perl - off topic
MYSQL:
- if your talking about C-CRUD (connect, create retrieve, update, or delete) with perl - on topic
- if your talking about C-CRUD (connect, create retrieve, update, or delete) with php or vb or c or ruby or anything other than perl - off topic
APACHE:
- if your talking about mod_perl - on topic
- if your talking about mod_php, or mod_vb (yikes) or mod_ruby or anything other than mod_perl - off topic

You see the pattern here?

SUBJECT:
- If perl is somewhere in the mix - it's on topic
- If perl is not somewhere in the mix - it's off topic

That being said, I have to say a lot of OT subjects will yield decent answers and less chastising if 1) you mark it as OT and 2) you ask the question effectively.

-derby

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Re^2: Is CGI On-Topic by davido (Cardinal) on Jul 13, 2006 at 20:34 UTC
Your criteria aren't quite accurate. Just because a script is written in Perl doesn't mean that the problem being addressed in the question is a Perl issue or question. If there's Perl somewhere in the mix, and the question is dealing with the Perl portion of the mix, you're on topic. But if there's Perl somewhere in the mix, and the question is dealing with SQL, or HTML, or something unrelated to Perl, you're off topic. Examples: "I have a Perl script and can't figure out why my SELECT statement isn't finding the correct data." -- That's an SQL question, not a Perl question. "I have a CGI script written in Perl, and can't figure out how to make a table." -- That's an HTML question, as long as it's already understood that print is all that's needed to output HTML. Dave	[reply]

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Re^2: Is CGI On-Topic
by davido (Cardinal) on Jul 13, 2006 at 20:34 UTC

Your criteria aren't quite accurate.

Just because a script is written in Perl doesn't mean that the problem being addressed in the question is a Perl issue or question. If there's Perl somewhere in the mix, and the question is dealing with the Perl portion of the mix, you're on topic. But if there's Perl somewhere in the mix, and the question is dealing with SQL, or HTML, or something unrelated to Perl, you're off topic.

Examples: "I have a Perl script and can't figure out why my SELECT statement isn't finding the correct data." -- That's an SQL question, not a Perl question.

"I have a CGI script written in Perl, and can't figure out how to make a table." -- That's an HTML question, as long as it's already understood that print is all that's needed to output HTML.

Dave

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