why oh why?
Hello again World I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y-- input type=hidden name=submit_date value=lt;--#echo var=quot;LOCAL_TIMEquot; --gt; inside the forms shtml page gives an error from the server I check it on. The rest of the form is OK with this cut out. This shtml page calls a cgi script that simply writes the form content to a secure file on the users website and sends a thank you message. I have not yet been able to get the server I am hosted from to give me a date!! It did take me a week to realise that despite what some books say you DO have to have shtml on some machines when SSI is being used. I need some sites to look at for more information I think - or some stupidly simple piece of cgi that writes today's date to a file when it closes. GOOD beginners work. TIA JimmyG -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hotmail.com vs. MIME:Lite
Hi everyone,
(thanks for your tips, Scot).
I managed to get my script working.
It sends a HTML mail via MIME::Lite, with a.txt attachment. All mail
clients I tested worked just fine.
The only problem is Hotmail.com!!
Hotmail.com neither displays the HTML mail, nor am I able to download
the txt attachment. Hotmail.com tells me, there is a virus in the txt
attachment.. ???
Hotmail.com does display plain text messages.
I got no idea what to do or how to solve it.
(RIght now I`m using a little sub checking whether it's a hotmail
address and sending only plain text to hotmail, while sending html to
all others)
Does anyone have an idea how to solve that problem?
Thanks for your help,
Sven
On Montag, September 16, 2002, at 06:48 Uhr, Scot Robnett wrote:
Yes, you can send text attachments. It's all documented at the link I
included in the last message...
Scot R.
-Original Message-
From: Sven Bentlage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 7:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SMTP/HTML/TEXT
Hi everyone,
I encountered another problem with my mailscript.
Hotmail.com users and some people who use strange mail clients don't
get anything displayed at all.
is there anyway to send a html mail via MIME::Lite with an attached
text part of it?
Thanks for your help.
Sven
On Donnerstag, September 12, 2002, at 01:46 Uhr, Scot Robnett wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Link for Sven:
# http://search.cpan.org/author/ERYQ/MIME-Lite-2.117/lib/MIME/Lite.pm
# Send HTML document with inline images
# MIME::Lite a purely perly sorta thing, so
# if it's not installed in @INC we can put
# it there without problems
BEGIN {
unshift(@INC,/path/to/our/own/modules);
}
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
# Create a new MIME Lite object
my $msg = MIME::Lite-new(
From='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
To ='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
Subject ='Hi',
Type='multipart/related');
# Add the body to your HTML message
$msg-attach(Type = 'text/html',
Data = qq{ BODY BGCOLOR=#FF
H2Hi/H2
P ALIGN=left
This is an HTML message.
/P
P ALIGN=left
A HREF=http://foo123.com/;Here's a link/A.
/P
P ALIGN=middle
IMG SRC=cid:img.jpg;
/P
/BODY });
# Attach the image
$msg-attach(Type = 'image/gif',
Id = 'img.gif',
Path = '/path/to/img.gif');
# Send it
$msg-send();
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Re: why oh why?
On 18 Sep 2002 at 18:09, Jimmy George wrote: I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- I'm not sure what you're doing with the SSI but here's some code to help munge a date into the format you're after: my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time); my $fulldate = sprintf %4d/%02d/%02d\n, 1900+$year, $mon+1, $mday; my $daymon = sprintf %02d/%02d, $mon+1, $mday; See sprintf (perldoc -f sprintf) for details about the formatting options of the input string. Hope that helps, William -- Lead Developer Knowmad Services Inc. || Internet Applications Database Integration http://www.knowmad.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...
Hi, Very newbie. I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a thumbnail page for my website. If so, how would I start and use for doing this? Thanks. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 at 09:56, Yuen, Alex opined: YA:I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a YA:thumbnail page for my website. YA: YA:If so, how would I start and use for doing this? if you question is how to create a thumbnail from a regular image, then you could use ImageMagick. http://www.imagemagick.org http://search.cpan.org/author/LGODDARD/Image-Magick-Thumbnail-0.01/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...
One part is to create a thumbnail image from a regular image. Second part is to create a web page or thumbnail page for viewing. Maybe 10 to 20 images per page. Thanks. Alex -- From: fliptop[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:52 AM To: Yuen, Alex Cc: 'Perl Beginners - CGI' Subject: Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)... On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 at 09:56, Yuen, Alex opined: YA:I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a YA:thumbnail page for my website. YA: YA:If so, how would I start and use for doing this? if you question is how to create a thumbnail from a regular image, then you could use ImageMagick. http://www.imagemagick.org http://search.cpan.org/author/LGODDARD/Image-Magick-Thumbnail-0.01/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2002 2:56 pm, Yuen, Alex wrote:
Hi,
Very newbie.
I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a
thumbnail page for my website.
If so, how would I start and use for doing this?
Thanks.
Alex
Hi Alex,
Here's a script based on one I was given a while back. This is a command-line
one but should easily be convertable to a CGI.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Image::Magick;
my $im = Image::Magick-new;
umask 0022;
# if passed filenames use them, otherwise do all
my @names = @ARGV ? @ARGV : grep { -f and -B } *;
for (@names) {# foreach name
if (/ /) { # if name contains a space
my $old = $_;
tr, ,_,s; # change spaces to _
$_ .= .jpg unless /\.jpg$/; # append .jpg if missing
! -e and rename $old, $_ or next; # skip file if rename fails
warn renaming $old to $_\n;
}
next if /\.thumb\.jpg$/;# skip if this is thumbnail
my $thumb = $_.thumb.jpg;
next if -e $thumb; # skip if thumbnail exists
undef @$im; # reset (part of) $im
my $ret;
$ret = $im-Read($_)# read file
and warn($ret), next; # or fail and skip
$ret = $im-Scale(geometry = '100x100')
and warn($ret), next;
$ret = $im-Write($thumb)
and warn($ret), next;
warn thumbnail made for $_\n;
}
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Date Question(s)
Hello everyone. I have a situation involving the DATE and DATE COMPARISON functions which I need some guidance on. The situation is this: 1. The end-users who visit my Site are allowed to ask a participating medical expert, one medical question per month. However, some are abusing this situation requiring me to build a 1 per month filter in the CGI Perl program. 2. I envision that when a person asks a question, his email address and date are first checked against the names listed within a text log file, and if it isn't listed, append that information to the file. 3. If, however, that person did ask a question within the one month time period, a comparison would take place between between the current date, and the date listed in the text log file ... and the newest question would be rejected. My problem with this scenario involves my lack of knowledge in -- A. ... first converting a current system date to a string date (which can be appended to a text log file). B. ... or comparing the logged initial-question date with the current system date to determine if 30 days have gone by since the initial question. Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks in advance for any clues, Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why oh why?
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:09:29PM +1000, Jimmy George wrote: Hello again World Hi Jimmy, I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y-- input type=hidden name=submit_date value=lt;--#echo var=quot;LOCAL_TIMEquot; --gt; First: SSI is _Server_-Side Includes. That means it's parsed on the server, before it ever gets to the user. Therefore, you can't HTML-escape your SSI directives, because, as far as the server's concerned, gt; has nothing whatsoever to do with . And anyway, even though the SSI directive is inside a quoted string, that directive will never reach the user, so it needs no escaping. Second: HTML comments (and therefore SSI directives as well) start with !--. Third: I believe the variable you're looking for is DATE_LOCAL. This version of the above code works OMM (and on my server): !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y-- input type=hidden name=submit_date value=!--#echo var=DATE_LOCAL -- Ugly, yes, but it works. If you want a purely inside the forms shtml page gives an error from the server I check it on. The rest of the form is OK with this cut out. This shtml page calls a cgi script that simply writes the form content to a secure file on the users website and sends a thank you message. I have not yet been able to get the server I am hosted from to give me a date!! It did take me a week to realise that despite what some books say you DO have to have shtml on some machines when SSI is being used. I need some sites to look at for more information I think - or some stupidly simple piece of cgi that writes today's date to a file when it closes. Try this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html GOOD beginners work. TIA JimmyG Hope that helps, -- Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hotmail.com vs. MIME:Lite
It sounds like you solved the problem already by sending text/plain messages
to Hotmail accounts. For some reason I've never had an issue with that,
though - maybe it's because I don't actually attach the image that is placed
inline; I import it from a location on my website. You could also try
forcing base64 or quoted-printable encoding. For example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
my $msg = MIME::Lite-new(
From ='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
To ='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
Subject ='Hello again',
Type ='multipart/related',
Encoding ='base64'
# or
#Encoding ='quoted-printable'
);
$msg-attach(Type = 'text/html',
Data = qq{ BODY BGCOLOR=#FF
H2This is a header./H2
PThis is another test./P
BR
IMG SRC=http://path/to/the/image.gif; # not attached
/BODY }# but imported
); # from website
$msg-send();
# -
# Scot R.
# inSite
# P.S. You're going to try to wrestle Microsoft?
# (they own Hotmail)
# See where it got the Justice Department? grin
-Original Message-
From: Sven Bentlage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hotmail.com vs. MIME:Lite
Hi everyone,
(thanks for your tips, Scot).
I managed to get my script working.
It sends a HTML mail via MIME::Lite, with a.txt attachment. All mail
clients I tested worked just fine.
The only problem is Hotmail.com!!
Hotmail.com neither displays the HTML mail, nor am I able to download
the txt attachment. Hotmail.com tells me, there is a virus in the txt
attachment.. ???
Hotmail.com does display plain text messages.
I got no idea what to do or how to solve it.
(RIght now I`m using a little sub checking whether it's a hotmail
address and sending only plain text to hotmail, while sending html to
all others)
Does anyone have an idea how to solve that problem?
Thanks for your help,
Sven
On Montag, September 16, 2002, at 06:48 Uhr, Scot Robnett wrote:
Yes, you can send text attachments. It's all documented at the link I
included in the last message...
Scot R.
-Original Message-
From: Sven Bentlage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 7:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SMTP/HTML/TEXT
Hi everyone,
I encountered another problem with my mailscript.
Hotmail.com users and some people who use strange mail clients don't
get anything displayed at all.
is there anyway to send a html mail via MIME::Lite with an attached
text part of it?
Thanks for your help.
Sven
On Donnerstag, September 12, 2002, at 01:46 Uhr, Scot Robnett wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Link for Sven:
# http://search.cpan.org/author/ERYQ/MIME-Lite-2.117/lib/MIME/Lite.pm
# Send HTML document with inline images
# MIME::Lite a purely perly sorta thing, so
# if it's not installed in @INC we can put
# it there without problems
BEGIN {
unshift(@INC,/path/to/our/own/modules);
}
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
# Create a new MIME Lite object
my $msg = MIME::Lite-new(
From='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
To ='[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
Subject ='Hi',
Type='multipart/related');
# Add the body to your HTML message
$msg-attach(Type = 'text/html',
Data = qq{ BODY BGCOLOR=#FF
H2Hi/H2
P ALIGN=left
This is an HTML message.
/P
P ALIGN=left
A HREF=http://foo123.com/;Here's a link/A.
/P
P ALIGN=middle
IMG SRC=cid:img.jpg;
/P
/BODY });
# Attach the image
$msg-attach(Type = 'image/gif',
Id = 'img.gif',
Path = '/path/to/img.gif');
# Send it
$msg-send();
-
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Re: Date Question(s)
I'd suggest checking out Date::Manip from CPAN. I use it to do date comparisons in some of my scripts. Why do you need to convert the date when writing it to the file. Just save the epoch time and use Date::Manip to eval the epoch time in the file to the current epoch time. William -- Lead Developer Knowmad Services Inc. || Internet Applications Database Integration http://www.knowmad.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Date Question(s)
Date::Calc is a wonderful thing. If that doesn't work however I would suggest just storing the number of seconds from epoch (aka time) in the log file. Then you simply subtract 30 days worth of seconds aka, 60*60*24*30 seconds - which you can just use the constant for whatever that comes out to be (yeh I know I am on a computer but I am sure you can handle the simple math ;-)) from the current time in seconds from the epoch and if the time in the log is greater then it hasn't been 30 days. Or you could do the reverse, tack on 30 days worth of seconds to the time in the log and if that is greater than the current time then it hasn't been 30 days, etc. If you then need readable date/time strings for either time you can just localtime it. http://danconia.org fliptop wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 at 12:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: [snip] n:My problem with this scenario involves my lack of knowledge in -- n: n:A. ... first converting a current system date to a string date (which can n:be appended to a text log file). n:B. ... or comparing the logged initial-question date with the current n:system date to determine if 30 days have gone by since the initial question. n: n:Any ideas on how to do this? have you looked into using date::calc? it may be the answer to all your questions. http://search.cpan.org/author/STBEY/Date-Calc-5.1/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why oh why?
I guess the question I have at this point is why pass the date to the form from the server and then back to a script when the end script could just as easily get the time using the *time* built in? Browser window could be opened with the time being set by the server, two days later when the user returns to the open window and submits the form all of a sudden your submission date is from two days ago but it submitted today, this is ugly *unless* it is what you intend which could be I suppose. http://danconia.org Michael Kelly wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:09:29PM +1000, Jimmy George wrote: Hello again World Hi Jimmy, I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order form. My first attempt of :- !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y-- input type=hidden name=submit_date value=lt;--#echo var=quot;LOCAL_TIMEquot; --gt; First: SSI is _Server_-Side Includes. That means it's parsed on the server, before it ever gets to the user. Therefore, you can't HTML-escape your SSI directives, because, as far as the server's concerned, gt; has nothing whatsoever to do with . And anyway, even though the SSI directive is inside a quoted string, that directive will never reach the user, so it needs no escaping. Second: HTML comments (and therefore SSI directives as well) start with !--. Third: I believe the variable you're looking for is DATE_LOCAL. This version of the above code works OMM (and on my server): !--#config timefmt=%d%b%y-- input type=hidden name=submit_date value=!--#echo var=DATE_LOCAL -- Ugly, yes, but it works. If you want a purely inside the forms shtml page gives an error from the server I check it on. The rest of the form is OK with this cut out. This shtml page calls a cgi script that simply writes the form content to a secure file on the users website and sends a thank you message. I have not yet been able to get the server I am hosted from to give me a date!! It did take me a week to realise that despite what some books say you DO have to have shtml on some machines when SSI is being used. I need some sites to look at for more information I think - or some stupidly simple piece of cgi that writes today's date to a file when it closes. Try this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html GOOD beginners work. TIA JimmyG Hope that helps, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sort
Hi friend:
I want know if is possible to do this:
For example:
If i have a flat data base myfile.txt with this info:
1|name|address|
2|name two|address two|
3|name three|address three|
4|name four|address four|
. (etc, etc)
If i execute:
open(IN,$myfile.txt);
while(IN){
@file=split(/\|/,$_);
If ($file[0] ne ){
print $field[0] | $field[1] | $field[2];
}
}
close (IN);
THE RESULTS IS:
1|name|address|
2|name two|address two|
3|name three|address three|
4|name four|address four|
OK. BUT HOW I CAN DO FOR THIS RESULTS BE:
4|name four|address four|
3|name three|address three|
2|name two|address two|
1|name|address|
??
Thanks
Daniel
(Excuse me my english)
result is:
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Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)...
Second part: Depends on how complex you want your thumbnail page to be (of course). Simplest might be to store all your thumbnails to a directory, do an opendir, then while readdir, print your image tag changing only the file name in each case. To complicate matters, you can use the same Image::Magick module to read the thumbnail to generate the width/height tags on the fly though I would say that is probably overkill. As for handling pages/numbered to display on each page, and stepping between them you are probably going to have to pass a couple of variables to the script, such as where to start displaying and how many to display. Or you could go the simple route and hard code the number shown, in which case you could just pass a page variable, either way you then generate the urls on the fly referencing previous,next,first,last, etc. So many options, so little time. http://danconia.org Yuen, Alex wrote: One part is to create a thumbnail image from a regular image. Second part is to create a web page or thumbnail page for viewing. Maybe 10 to 20 images per page. Thanks. Alex -- From: fliptop[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:52 AM To: Yuen, Alex Cc: 'Perl Beginners - CGI' Subject: Re: Creating thumbnails (Newbie Question)... On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 at 09:56, Yuen, Alex opined: YA:I was wondering if it is possible to write a CGI (Perl) program to make a YA:thumbnail page for my website. YA: YA:If so, how would I start and use for doing this? if you question is how to create a thumbnail from a regular image, then you could use ImageMagick. http://www.imagemagick.org http://search.cpan.org/author/LGODDARD/Image-Magick-Thumbnail-0.01/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GPL - how does it work
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