Hi newbie01! On Monday 15 Mar 2010 09:39:41 newbie01 perl wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment, I have some sort of INI/config file that I edit manually via > vi. These config files are "simple" delimited file that are used by some of > the scripts running on the server. > > I want to be able to the same thing via cgi-bin, can anyone advise where to > start. Basically, I want to be able to display the contents of the > INI/config file in some kind of FORM or web page and then allow the user to > be able to edit and save it at the same time.
That is doable. > > Any advise on where to start will be very much appreciated. Am not sure if > I should be using PHP instead of CGI-BIN but I thought the latter would be > simpler to do. PHP is not recommended because one can easily write dangerous code in it: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/php/ Regarding writing CGI scripts, read the following: * http://www.htmldog.com/ - to learn HTML. * http://jdporter.perlmonk.org/cgi_course/ - to learn CGI . * You may also wish to look at http://perl-begin.org/ for more Perl-learning resources. Then you may wish to take a look at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojolicious/ (which is self-contained) or a different web-development framework to ease the writing. > > Being able to prompt for a username/password prior to editing the file > would be a plus ... :-) > That is doable. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Thanks in advance. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
