Hi Shari,
I'm working on a simpler but related project right now which is simply
to solicit an E-mail address from a Metacard stack and then use it to
send an ID number or something to the user. The intention is to
receive valid E-mails in exchange for providing access codes to various
parts of my software. Your project sounds a little more complex, but
as a suggestion you might try looking through Ken Ray's SonsoThunder
site at:
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/tips/cgi001.htm
Good luck,
Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software
On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Shari wrote:
All this CGI talk has me thinking about this again. Every once in
awhile I ponder a desire. But don't know how to approach it without
wasting many weeks or months over something I do not understand.
I'd like to automate my registration system. Currently I will get an
email, pull out certain info from the email and enter it into a
Metacard stack, which gives me the registration code, which I email
back to the person.
I've never automated this online because I just don't know enough
about online security to protect it. Nor do I know anything about
writing CGI or PHP. I use pre-written CGI and PHP scripts on
occasion. But would not trust someone else's to actually generate
registration code for me. I don't know enough about online security
to even trust that my CGI script is not gettable somehow. You hear so
much about hackers.
I do trust my ability to create a Metacard app which hides the
algorithm used to generate codes. So using CGI to send the info to
Metacard and retrieve the info from Metacard would be within my safety
zone.
A lot of discussion occurs here linking Metacard with CGI. Most of it
is way over my head. Think of me as a CGI kindergartner. Or better
yet, a pre-schooler. Also, as I do not know the C programming
language, only Metacard's language, a lot of CGI script is
gobbledygook to me.
Is it possible for a simple CGI script to just take the parameters
from an email and send that to an online Metacard app somehow? And
for the Metacard app to generate the code, send it either back to the
CGI or as an email to the purchaser without my help? And trap for
errors (such as the email didn't go out) and email me?
The whole Metacard app would presumably need to reside online. I am
guessing this goes into the CGI folder? Would one simply create a
Metacard app just like I'd use it on my hard drive? And upload it to
a CGI folder? I'm assuming I'd have to compile it for Windows for
most web hosts to handle it?
Is anyone doing this? Are there any how-to's with detailed (How To
for Dummies) step-by-step instructions on how to do it?
Shari
Gypsy King Software
--
Mac and Windows shareware games
http://www.gypsyware.com
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