Are CGI pages indexed by search engines?

2002-04-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I want to make my web site and I don't know if it is a good idea to use many CGI scripts to write html pages. The server where I have my page doesn't allow SSI and I can't write HTML pages that contains counters, etc, and I need to write the whole page as a CGI script. 1. Do I have

Do I need MySQL?

2002-04-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Hi all, I want to read and sort a comma separated file like: abc,Metallica,Larry bcd,Megadeth,Wall cde,Ozzy,Perl I want to be able to sort the line using all the 3 columns. I am a beginner in Perl and I don't know to use MySQL yet. Is it possible to do what I want without a database? Thank

Re: POSTing to a .html URL

2002-04-07 Thread Teresa Raymond
This may be what you are looking for: Put your receiving variables html into a cgi prog, pass the variables with the submit button to this cgi prog in which, I think, you can still use your html templates as long as they are accessed by the full url. Let me know if this works out. Hi

Re: Hiding the real location of a file?

2002-04-07 Thread Octavian Rasnita
Oh thank you, now I don't understand anything! smile I will try it, but please tell me something. If I will do it this way, the file will be downloaded on my server then downloaded to the client's machine? Thank you! Teddy, My new email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message

Fetching params and joining them to path's.

2002-04-07 Thread Tor Hildrum
I have this obscure problem, that I feel should be really easy to solve. But, I can't figure it out. I've been skimming trough both Learning Perl and Programming Perl, but I suddenly feel blind to the code. Here are some snips from the code: print header(), start_html(Registrering til

RE: I need CGI Help

2002-04-07 Thread Kevin Queen
Ok, how would I do that? I am new to all of this perl/cgi stuff, sorry for what I am sure is a moronic question. -Kevin -Original Message- From: Scot Robnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 11:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'mailing list' Subject: RE: I need CGI

RE: Do I need MySQL?

2002-04-07 Thread Scot Robnett
No. MySQL would be overkill for an application like this unless you're talking about several thousand lines. Otherwise you can just use something like... my $foo = /path/to/file; open(INFILE,$foo); my @records = INFILE; close(INFILE); for(@records) { chomp; my ($rec,$band,$artist) =

RE: I need CGI Help

2002-04-07 Thread Scot Robnett
I am not familiar with cvsweb.cgi, but it looks like the path you define is definitely in @INC. Did you try placing a copy of strict.pm elsewhere and unshifiting into @INC with a BEGIN block just to test it? It shouldn't be necessary with strict but I'm at a loss considering what you show as

RE: Are CGI pages indexed by search engines?

2002-04-07 Thread Scot Robnett
Google won't currently index dynamic pages such as .cgi or .cfm. However, they have recently begun indexing pages served over SSL in addition to indexing HTTP-served pages, so security-conscious programmers (hopefully that includes all of us) should be aware of this. I have a link to this

Re: get method and query_string

2002-04-07 Thread zentara
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:07:45 -0500 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Hughes) wrote: I have a tab delimited flat text-file database (hotels.txt) with hotel info from all 50 states in the following fields: $available (1=available; 0=unavailable) $location_num (numbers 1-50) $location_txt $city

Re: I need CGI Help

2002-04-07 Thread zentara
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 01:11:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Queen) wrote: Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i486-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5 /5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i486-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/li

Re: Redirecting to a page and downloading

2002-04-07 Thread Joshua Hayden
Javascript seems to work pretty well for this. body onLoad=window.open('somefile.zip') If you put this in a page, the visitor will be prompted to download the file as soon as the page is fully loaded. Best Regards, JOSHUA D. HAYDEN - Original Message - From: Octavian Rasnita [EMAIL

RE: Redirecting to a page and downloading

2002-04-07 Thread Scot Robnett
That will work for people that have Javascript enabled in their browsers, which is the majority, but it's not everyone. Better to handle it server side to guarantee it works (or at least you will have more of a guarantee than with client side Javascript). Have you looked into the LWP

Calling a sub with submit-button.

2002-04-07 Thread Tor Hildrum
Here is the code: ..sub velgarrangement{ print start_form(), hr; print p(Velg arrangement: , popup_menu(arrangement, \@arrangement)); print p(submit(Velg)); print end_form(), hr(); registrer(); } What happens now is that velgarrangement() and registrer() are both printed to the screen at the

Yesterday's date

2002-04-07 Thread Troy May
What's the easiest way to get yesterday's date from localtime? I need it in this format: (for today) 070402. Here is the code used for today's date: ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,undef,undef,undef) = localtime(); $mon++; $year %= 100; $theDate = sprintf(%02u%02u%02u, $mday, $mon, $year);

Re: Yesterday's date

2002-04-07 Thread fliptop
Troy May wrote: What's the easiest way to get yesterday's date from localtime? I need it in this format: (for today) 070402. use Date::Calc qw{ Today Add_Delta_Days }; my @date = Add_Delta_Days(Today, -1); printf Yesterday: %02u%02u%02u, $date[2], $date[1], substr($date[0], -2);

Re: bounceback filter script

2002-04-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Moonlit Submit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Now I'm getting this error: Content-type: text/html Software error: Server error: 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient) How do I fix that? Well, first ... I'd recomend using some custom function instead of die() to report errors. Something like:

Re: foreach

2002-04-07 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Matthew Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a database table that I am querying through DBI. The field I want to fetch could be field1 x 200 records. I need these fields to populate a drop-down html menu. The field I am grabbing is the name field for a list of people.

Re: Variable question

2002-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:32:01PM -0800, John W. Krahn wrote: And if you really want to get cute you can put it all on one line: substr( $ARGV[0], $_, 1 ) eq $ARGV[1] and $cnt++ for 0 .. length( $ARGV[0] ) - 1; print $cnt; I count two lines ;-) Both of these are a little obfuscated, but

Re: How to refresh browser

2002-04-07 Thread drieux
On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 08:53 , Leon wrote: [..] Whats the code for refreshing a browser assuming the url to be refreshed is http://www.perl.com/ are you writing the client side? or the server side? From the server side cgi/mod_perl I would recommend that you check into how to set

Microsoft Access/Running program as a service on Win2k

2002-04-07 Thread Dan
Hello all, Is it possible to export an Access query on an Access database to a text file. So what I want to do is connect to an Access database then simply run an SQl query on the database/table. From there I need the results of that query to be exported to a comma delimited text file. Has

Special Characters for a text area

2002-04-07 Thread @fro @ndy
Hay, i am using apache with active state perl i think and i have created a message board in cgi. I would like it so that whenever people press enter and want to leave a line in between their posts it is displayed as having a blank line in between. For Example: User writes: Hi Hello CGI

Re: perllocal.pod

2002-04-07 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Robert Brandtjen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *contains only about 9 of over 100 installed PM's - how can I update it *to see all of them ? You shouldn't ever need or want to manually edit perllocal yourself. e. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: bounceback filter script

2002-04-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
Moonlit- You should read the responses people give you a little more closely. The example Chas gave you was for the Mail::Sendmail module, if I remember correctly. He also mentioned that you could use Mail::Sender as an alternative. -Original Message- From: Jenda Krynicky To:

Re: Calling all tk users

2002-04-07 Thread zentara
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:59:00 -0800 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Johnson) wrote: Hey, is there anybody out there than can give me a really short example of retrieving text from an Entry box? I see in the documentation that you use the $entry-gtget, but there aren't any syntax examples. What I

RE: Microsoft Access/Running program as a service on Win2k

2002-04-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
To access (no pun intended) the Access database, you might want to look into Win32::ODBC or one of the DBI modules (I haven't had to use them so I can't be more specific). You can get Win32::ODBC at http://www.roth.net/perl, or from the PPM repository at http://www.roth.net/perl/packages. As

RE: Calling all tk users

2002-04-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
Zentara, you are my hero. I still don't understand why they wrote the documentation the way they did, but that was the missing link I was looking for. -Original Message- From: zentara To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/7/02 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Calling all tk users On Fri, 5 Apr 2002

Re: Calling all tk users

2002-04-07 Thread zentara
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 13:54:40 -0400, zentara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:59:00 -0800 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Johnson) wrote: Hey, is there anybody out there than can give me a really short example of retrieving text from an Entry box? I see in the documentation that you

RE: Special Characters for a text area

2002-04-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
No offense, but I don't see how you can expect an answer when you never posted any code. We can't tell what you're doing wrong if we don't know what you're doing. As a side note, you might want to check out the cgi beginners list. -Original Message- From: @fro @ndy To: [EMAIL

Re: Special Characters for a text area

2002-04-07 Thread Connie Chan
1) open (FILE, yourfile.txt) ; for (@yourdata) { s/\n/p/g; print FILE $_\n }close (FILE); 2) open (FILE, yourfile.txt) ; while (FILE) { s/\n/p/g; print } close (FILE); - Original Message - From: @fro @ndy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:33 PM

Yesterday's date

2002-04-07 Thread Troy May
What's the easiest way to get yesterday's date from localtime? I need it in this format: (for today) 070402. Here is the code used for today's date: ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,undef,undef,undef) = localtime(); $mon++; $year %= 100; $theDate = sprintf(%02u%02u%02u, $mday, $mon, $year);

RE: Yesterday's date

2002-04-07 Thread Wagner, David --- Technical Specialist I ---WGO
Subtract number of seconds in a day 86400 from time: ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,undef,undef,undef) = localtime(time - 86400); Will give you yesterday. Mutliply by 2 - 2 days ago, 3 - days ago, etc. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Troy May

Timeout a system command

2002-04-07 Thread Darren Edgerton
Hi, i want to set a timer around a system command, so that IF the command runs longer than x seconds send email to the sysadmin Note: i *DO NOT* want to kill the process - simply want to send a warning that it is taking longer than expected ie $maxtime=60;# 60 seconds

Re: Timeout a system command

2002-04-07 Thread victor
Try the alarm function. Tor. Darren Edgerton wrote: Hi, i want to set a timer around a system command, so that IF the command runs longer than x seconds send email to the sysadmin Note: i *DO NOT* want to kill the process - simply want to send a warning that it is taking longer than

Accessing an Access database from a Unix box

2002-04-07 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
Hello All, I am currently NOW trying to access an Access database filename.mdb from a shared drive on my Unix box. Now all I want to do is extract data from an SQL query from this database? Can this be done? I don't think I will need to use Win32::ODBC but instead something else like

Re: Timeout a system command

2002-04-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Apr 8, Darren Edgerton said: i want to set a timer around a system command, so that IF the command runs longer than x seconds $maxtime=60;# 60 seconds system(some_command_that_takes_longer_than_60secs); Here's how I'd do it: { local $SIG{ALRM} = \send_email; alarm 60;

Accessing an Access database from a Unix box

2002-04-07 Thread Daniel Falkenberg
---BeginMessage--- Hello All, I am currently NOW trying to access an Access database filename.mdb from a shared drive on my Unix box. Now all I want to do is extract data from an SQL query from this database? Can this be done? I don't think I will need to use Win32::ODBC but instead