"$Bill Luebkert" wrote: > Michael Meltzer wrote: > > > Thanks to all who answerd. > > > > When asking this question i did hope there is a script already. > > It's too simple for a script (at least the basic editing part). > > > My special problem in this case is how can I present the user a previous message > > (if it exists) and how can the user *edit* > > this message. Is it possible to create a form whith a text block which the user > > may change ? > > Of course - just a basic textarea tag in a form. > > <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/vacedit.pl"> > <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="pass" VALUE="2"> > Edit your vaction mesage: > <BR><TEXTAREA NAME="vacation_msg" ROWS="8" COLS="40">$msg</TEXTAREA> > </FORM> > > On the first call to the script, pass won't be defined and you > will return the form above with the file content in $msg. > > After editing (second call pass is defined and == 2), vacation_msg > will contain the new text to write to the file. > > > I did up to now not start writing any line of code. > > Well, get to it and write an HTML form and a few lines of CGI to > read the parameters into. Then all you need to do is open a file, > read the contents into $msg and close the file. > > Later you can field the edited vacation msg in your CGI script > and open the file for write and replace the old msg. You could > create a vacation group and make the msg writeable by that group > and run the CGI setuid to the group (make sure you authenticate > the user). > > > I am just thinking about this problem and which modules to use. > > No modules needed unless you want to use CGI.pm > > > May be this question is very trivial and you are looking for greater problems > > (that may arise later). > > Could be. > > -- > ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ > -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff)
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