Some Advice plz :))
hi yall, yup, i'm an old country boy... loli'm strugling here to learn perl on my own and with help from(maybe yall)lol so plz bare with me... i need some advice on an issue here... i'm creating, well trying to create, a ranking system for my online pals... i've accomplished user signup, print info to flatfile database... send confirmation of account and a search for lost userid and pwd... now, i got to thinking... if say a user wants to update their info( change pwd, name, etc...)i'm just completely lost here... does anyone have a good explanation or some code snippets i can look at? tx again RD Sr.
Re: Some Advice plz :))
e. you want us to do your work for you? /me points out that amazon has a large selection of very good perl books. - Original Message - From: "RDWest Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: Some Advice plz :)) hi yall, yup, i'm an old country boy... loli'm strugling here to learn perl on my own and with help from(maybe yall)lol so plz bare with me... i need some advice on an issue here... i'm creating, well trying to create, a ranking system for my online pals... i've accomplished user signup, print info to flatfile database... send confirmation of account and a search for lost userid and pwd... now, i got to thinking... if say a user wants to update their info( change pwd, name, etc...)i'm just completely lost here... does anyone have a good explanation or some code snippets i can look at? tx again RD Sr.
Re: Some Advice plz :))
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:24:24PM +0100, Pierre Smolarek wrote: : e. you want us to do your work for you? It sounds to me like RDWest is very new to all this. It is possible that he doesn't know where to start. We are here to help these folks too. : - Original Message - : From: "RDWest Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : : hi yall, : yup, i'm an old country boy... loli'm strugling here to learn : perl on my own and with help from(maybe yall)lol so plz bare with me... : i need some advice on an issue here... i'm creating, well trying to : create, a ranking system for my online pals... i've accomplished user : signup, print info to flatfile database... send confirmation of account : and a search for lost userid and pwd... : : now, i got to thinking... if say a user wants to update their info( : change pwd, name, etc...)i'm just completely lost here... : does anyone have a good explanation or some code snippets i can look at? The general idea here is this: After a user has logged in, he/she can access his/her information in the flatfile database. They can do this because you will write a CGI program that allows them to edit certain information. When they submit that form, the info is saved in the flat file database, in their record. If you start moving on this and get more specific questions, they will be easier to answer with example code or pointers to the right books/documentation. Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Genetic Algorithms You create 10,000 strings describing the best way to shoot yourself in the foot. By the time the program produces the optimal solution, humans have evolved wings and the problem is moot.
RE: Some Advice plz :))
Wow, your response to Mr. Smolarek was a bit harsh, even though is response to you was harsh as well. Hmm Anyway, you'll have to read each line in and parse it and write it out, modifying the appropriate line. You already have the parsing done or you'd not be able to send the confirmation and search for lost passwords. You read each line, parse it, inspect it to see if it is the appropriate line to modify and modify it accordingly, then write it out to a temp file. Keep doing that until you've gone through all of the lines, then remove the original file and move the temp file into its place. hth Chris > -Original Message- > From: RDWest Sr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Some Advice plz :)) > > > hi yall, > yup, i'm an old country boy... loli'm strugling > here to learn perl on my own and with help from(maybe > yall)lol so plz bare with me... > i need some advice on an issue here... i'm creating, > well trying to create, a ranking system for my online > pals... i've accomplished user signup, print info to > flatfile database... send confirmation of account and a > search for lost userid and pwd... > > now, i got to thinking... if say a user wants to update > their info( change pwd, name, etc...)i'm just completely > lost here... > > does anyone have a good explanation or some code snippets i > can look at? > tx again > RD Sr. >
RE: Some Advice plz :))
You are rude! dive the guy a break man! -Original Message- From: Pierre Smolarek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:24 PM To: RDWest Sr.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Some Advice plz :)) e. you want us to do your work for you? /me points out that amazon has a large selection of very good perl books. - Original Message - From: "RDWest Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: Some Advice plz :)) hi yall, yup, i'm an old country boy... loli'm strugling here to learn perl on my own and with help from(maybe yall)lol so plz bare with me... i need some advice on an issue here... i'm creating, well trying to create, a ranking system for my online pals... i've accomplished user signup, print info to flatfile database... send confirmation of account and a search for lost userid and pwd... now, i got to thinking... if say a user wants to update their info( change pwd, name, etc...)i'm just completely lost here... does anyone have a good explanation or some code snippets i can look at? tx again RD Sr. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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Oh boy... here we go! This should fire up some creativity. This first book should be the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (-; Followed by the "Llama" book. Followed by a great list of resources for solving this type of problem easily. my 2 cents early, Mark Bergeron -Original Message- From: "Chris Mulcahy"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Jun 27 08:21:46 PDT 2001 Subject: Re: Some Advice plz :)) >Wow, your response to Mr. Smolarek was a bit harsh, even though is >response to you was harsh as well. Hmm > >Anyway, you'll have to read each line in and parse it and write it out, >modifying the appropriate line. You already have the parsing done or >you'd not be able to send the confirmation and search for lost >passwords. > >You read each line, parse it, inspect it to see if it is the appropriate >line to modify and modify it accordingly, then write it out to a temp >file. Keep doing that until you've gone through all of the lines, then >remove the original file and move the temp file into its place. > >hth >Chris > >> -Original Message- >> From: RDWest Sr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:12 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Some Advice plz :)) >> >> >> hi yall, >> yup, i'm an old country boy... loli'm strugling >> here to learn perl on my own and with help from(maybe >> yall)lol so plz bare with me... >> i need some advice on an issue here... i'm creating, >> well trying to create, a ranking system for my online >> pals... i've accomplished user signup, print info to >> flatfile database... send confirmation of account and a >> search for lost userid and pwd... >> >> now, i got to thinking... if say a user wants to update >> their info( change pwd, name, etc...)i'm just completely >> lost here... >> >> does anyone have a good explanation or some code snippets i >> can look at? >> tx again >> RD Sr. >> > > /~_. _ | _ _ _ _ \_/|(_||| | |(_)| | _| ___ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com
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But seriously.. I didn't mean to sound harsh... I understand that you want your problem solved... Now.. if we gave the answer (wrote the script for you) then you'll abuse our help and ask again and again we are here to help people leran. Like someone else said, be a little bit mor spacific and we can guide you with ease. If you would like to know how you could go about doing this then, i guess if you can't think about what you need to do then you really are stuck... humm.. thats where a programmer shines.. you can either do it or you can't. It sounded to me as if you new what you were doing (you explained how you added to a flat-file) Pierre - Original Message - From: "Mark Bergeron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Mulcahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Re: Some Advice plz :)) > Oh boy... here we go! This should fire up some creativity. This first book should be the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (-; Followed by the "Llama" book. Followed by a great list of resources for solving this type of problem easily. > > my 2 cents early, > Mark Bergeron > > -Original Message- > From: "Chris Mulcahy"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed Jun 27 08:21:46 PDT 2001 > Subject: Re: Some Advice plz :)) > > >Wow, your response to Mr. Smolarek was a bit harsh, even though is > >response to you was harsh as well. Hmm > > > >Anyway, you'll have to read each line in and parse it and write it out, > >modifying the appropriate line. You already have the parsing done or > >you'd not be able to send the confirmation and search for lost > >passwords. > > > >You read each line, parse it, inspect it to see if it is the appropriate > >line to modify and modify it accordingly, then write it out to a temp > >file. Keep doing that until you've gone through all of the lines, then > >remove the original file and move the temp file into its place. > > > >hth > >Chris > > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: RDWest Sr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:12 AM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Some Advice plz :)) > >> > >> > >> hi yall, > >> yup, i'm an old country boy... loli'm strugling > >> here to learn perl on my own and with help from(maybe > >> yall)lol so plz bare with me... > >> i need some advice on an issue here... i'm creating, > >> well trying to create, a ranking system for my online > >> pals... i've accomplished user signup, print info to > >> flatfile database... send confirmation of account and a > >> search for lost userid and pwd... > >> > >> now, i got to thinking... if say a user wants to update > >> their info( change pwd, name, etc...)i'm just completely > >> lost here... > >> > >> does anyone have a good explanation or some code snippets i > >> can look at? > >> tx again > >> RD Sr. > >> > > > > > > /~_. _ | _ _ _ _ > \_/|(_||| | |(_)| | > _| > ___ > GO.com Mail > Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com >
