Hi Dino good to hear you have chosen AOLserver to build your website - it's a fine choice. My advice to you is to save yourself from rebuilding the wheel and to use an open source toolkit, which will already have written all the various components you may need, whether it's calendars, country pulldowns or security features. The obvious choice for AOLserver is OpenACS - take a look at http://www.openacs.org
regards Brian Fenton ________________________________________ From: AOLserver Discussion [aolser...@listserv.aol.com] On Behalf Of Dino Vliet [dino_vl...@yahoo.com] Sent: 24 September 2009 13:34 To: AOLSERVER@listserv.aol.com Subject: [AOLSERVER] 3 aolserver questions reagrding calender/drop down list/security Dear Aolserver people, I'm busy building my site and so far everything works fine. I consider myself a starter in website construction & aolserver programming. I prefer to only use HTML, CSS and TCL (including ADP's) on the sites I'm building. I have to following questions, where I hope somebody can point me in the right direction/ give me some guidelines or show me example code:-) Question 1) I see the need to present the users of my site with a small little calender, when they want to input date fields in my forms. How is this accomplished? Do I really need javascript for this, or are there other possibilities, preferrably with TCL? Question 2) I would like to see people select their current country in a drop down box. Does anyone know how this is done? And where I will get the whole list of all countries in the world? Question 3) If I look at my access.log file, I see a lot of strange requests where my server gives 404 as a response. Who has some great tips for me about security aspects of a production aolserver? I tried googling for this but they are all apache related. Who has some pointers for me regarding aolserver? What kind of operators should I avoid? Should I put every logic into the TCL or ADP pages (like calculating a price of a service or checking the availability of a service etc etc) or should I code as much logic into the database with stored procedures. Would you put smtp login credentials for a external smtp server in a TCL or ADP page or would you "solve" the issue of mailing after a reservation another way? Brgds and thanks for your time, Dino -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <lists...@listserv.aol.com> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
