Re: admin. guestbook

Personally I try to avoid editing HTML files directly (in a CGI context that is). You might want to check SSI (Server Side Includes), which basically can insert script output in a HTML file (without actually changing the HTML file). The other way is have a pure CGI guestbook (no/minimal HTML files).

Greetz
Beatnik
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Re: Re: admin. guestbook by deriwana (Initiate) on Jun 15, 2001 at 19:34 UTC
Sorry for my vagueness before, I'll try to clear some things up.. The file that the guestbook writes to is more or less a flat-file database WITHOUT delimiters, so there isn't a way to single out entries unless a name, address, or zipcode-query is done to point to a certain area of the file to be edited. Ultimately, I would like the script to be able to edit the flat-file html page thru an admin. page like the one submitted by "Tachyon" (see above)....just the ability to edit the contents of a flat-file database(without obvious delimiters) over the web. Here is the guestbook script that creates the flat-file: http://204.33.180.159:8080/guest.txt Thanks to everyone who submitted a response.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: admin. guestbook by Beatnik (Parson) on Jun 15, 2001 at 21:27 UTC
Looking at your code, the following things came to mind: use CGI.pm - see merlyns No excuses about not using CGI.pm use strict & -w shell call to date?? try localtime I recommend using any of the Mail::* (or related) modules to handle mailing Nodes on checking for valid e-mail addresses : Email validation, Email::Valid & validate an email address ? Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply]