Hi Ryan:
You can add information to a url like so:
http://www.mydomain/cgi-bin/mine.cgi/arg1/arg2
where /arg1/arg2 function like command-line arguments.
I would be happy to help you further here, but you
should look up information on the cgi standards.
I would be willing to send you the article that I will be
writing for Andrew Kamp's site. I should have a draft
after tuesday, and I will also have a documented rebol
CGI object module available for public domain sometime
after that as well.
regards
tim
At 01:29 AM 7/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>In the interim while I haven't received any responses, I thought of a third
>solution, albeit I don't like it. The third solution is to have each news
>article rendered within its own form and to have its own submit button. The
>form can carry the article's reference number via the cgi object. This is
>probably the easiest solution, but I can't stand the thought of having so
>many submit buttons on a news headlines page. Perhaps I'll change the value
>of the submit button to be "!" so that it doesn't take up so much space.
>Otherwise, if anyone has an answer to my previous question I'm all ears.
>
>8-)
>
>-Ryan
>
>>Hello. Before I progress any further, I need some advice.
>>
>>With my script News Site, the script saves news articles as object
>>expressions and loads them into memory before rendering a page based on the
>>values in the objects. One of the object values is a reference number to
>>differentiate the object from all others (since the objects are only object
>>expressions they are assigned to object words upon loading.)
>>
>>The next feature I want to add is a commenting system. I want the reader to
>>be able to click on a hyperlink for "comments" which will then execute a
>.cgi
>>script. The .cgi script will then render a page including all of the
>comments
>>people have posted in regards to the news article in question. The question
>I
>>have is, how do I pass a value to a script from a hyperlink so that the
>>script renders the correct set of comments?
>>
>>I have thought of another option, albeit more cumbersome. During the time
>the
>>main script creates object expressions for the news articles themselves,
the
>>script could create a separate .cgi script just for that article. But how
>can
>>I write a script to a directory and then make the script executable all at
>>the same time? I'm thinking the web server will see the .cgi extension and
>>assign it executable status, but I'm not sure that is always the case.
>>
>>I hope you're understanding what I am writing. Your help is much
>appreciated.
>>
>>-Ryan
>>
>>
>
>
