Re: Script within a script

2004-01-15 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post... > You can execute that second script: > require script.pl > > or > > system('perl script.pl'); > While interesting solutions I would avoid both. The first is a very odd usage of require to me, if you want to go along those routes I suspect you are better off with do or e

Re: help with progress bar

2004-01-15 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:38:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry > > Creighton) wrote: > > > > Well that's disappointing. Well then how do they do it with the Megaupload > script? That works great and isn't slow BUT it doesn't have form > processing. The guy who wrote it said that I can paste th

OT: Re: File not downloading - off topic

2004-01-23 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > > Sorry for this off topic subject, but I don't even know where to ask about > this problem. M$.com? > > A program on my site saves some email messages and let me download them > later, and I use the .eml file extension for those files. > When I try to access the URL to one of those me

Re: image link

2004-01-23 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I have having difficulty with my brain lately. I need to display an image > that is a link. I cannot find an example anywhere. > > Thanks, > Rod. > Huh? Slow down, breathe, then give us that again coherently http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: image link

2004-01-23 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post... > I am sorry, that was a little hastely written out of frustration. > > > I am trying to use CGI.pm to display a row of images. Each of those images > are a link. I can make a text link, but have not figured the right syntax for > making an image link. > > Hope that was

Re: Recommendations on Programming Style

2004-01-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Question #1: Does anyone have any favorite document > that is a style guide for perl programmers? There are > entire books on the subject of style for C++ > programmers, I've not seen any for perl, though. > Well there is the perlstyle doc page, perldoc perlstyle that gives general suggestio

Re: Automated script to connect to a web site and change the password

2004-01-28 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please don't cross post to multiple groups... > > Dear Friends, > > I need to write a Perl CGI script that connects to > a website (like Yahoo) and change the Password for > my user. I don't want to do it manually. It should > be handled by the script. > > Please suggest any idea/code available

Re: db to HTML with checkboxes

2004-02-04 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > > Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > >> Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > >> > >>> Andrew Gaffney wrote: > >>> > >>>> I have a Perl CGI script that runs a query against a MySQL table. I > >

Re: Sorting directory content using creation time

2004-02-04 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > > Does anybody know if there is an option in readdir to return the file list > in the order of their creation time? Or know of a way to do that? Been > reading the perldoc w/o much luck. Thanks! > Doubtful, but it should be trivial using readdir in a list context and using 'sort' with

Re: CGI Script to annoy script kiddies.

2004-02-06 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Personally I would leave hassling script kiddies to the script kiddies To me this is a bandwidth drain. Script kiddies are an ignorant nuisance, the more time you spend on them the more they have "won" in their little game. http://danconia.org > NICE!!! > I really like this! > I'm not sur

Re: Email text encoding

2004-02-11 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > > and thanks for all the previous suggestions regarding email modules. Now it turned out that my ISP refuses to let me install *any* additional Perl module on the server, so I have to use sendmail. > Switch ISPs? Sorry this isn't the answer you want. Sorry I can't provide more help wit

Re: AW: Need help to divert HTML print <

2004-02-18 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hello, > > Can you guys tell me on this piece of codes? It doesn't print the small > html codes in the sub below. No warning - nothing! > N.B. Don't bother about the html; just check my perl codes to see why I > doesn't print what I want. > > Thanks > > Babs >

RE: What are you really trying to do? - document type = applicat ion/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
nt your header and the contents of the file, you may even be able to bypass the local temp storage but I didn't check real closely. Good Luck, http://danconia.org > > -Original Message- > From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 26,

Re: document type = application/vnd.ms-excel

2004-02-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I am trying to generate a web page with : > print $q->header("application/vnd.ms-excel"), > > This tries to launch Excel but I get the error: > "File cannot be opened because: A declaration was not closed Line 1, > Position 1 <" > > When I use: > print $q->header("text/html"), > > The page dis

Re: Stricture and warnings (was Re: problems parsing web form information into a perl script)

2004-03-09 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > > > use strict; # always > > use warnings;# usually > > Why not always? I would make it: > >use strict; # always >use warnings; # always > I won't argue with you over them. I always do both... some people

OT: Re: Standarized tests

2004-03-17 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Are there any standarized tests one can take to measure one's Perl > prowess? How much are they and where can I find them? > This comment is pretty off topic for a CGI specific list. It has been discussed a couple of times in the jobs-discuss list and the advocacy list (I think), particularly

Re: handling multiple select with CGI

2004-03-17 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I have a Perl script which uses the CGI module which needs to be able to get all the > selected items in a SELECT. I see that the request comes in as > 'selectname=item1&selectname=item2&selectname=item3'. If I do '$p = $cgi->Vars', wouldn't > I only get the last value? >From the CGI.pm doc

Re: Submit button to print form and then submit

2004-03-18 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> > Hi, > > I am designing a form using cgi and when the user clicks the submit button, > the form must print to the users local printer and then submit. > > Thanking you in advance > > You are talking client side, and most likely are going to need something like Java, Flash, ActiveX, etc.

Re: Perl CGI and XML

2004-03-19 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I want to store the data from a straightforward form in an XML file. The > perl script has to read the form data, and write it to the XML file. > > What's the best/simplest module for this? > CGI.pm with XML::Simple would be my choices, both easy to work with and available on CPAN. http://da

Re: What perl moduules are installed?

2004-03-19 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I'm using Perl 5.6.1 for mainly CGI work > > How do I know which modules are already installed? > If you have shell access, find `perl -e 'print "@INC"'` -name '*.pm' -print Will show you, note that this will include modules in your cwd which if that is your home dir and you have a .cpan the

Re: Perl CGI and XML

2004-03-19 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post > thanks - I've tried installing it (and other modules) on my Solaris 9 box. > The 'perl MakeFile.pl' and 'make' work fine, but 'make test' fails spitting > out "Command failed for target 'test_dynamic'" -- any idea what this means > and how I can fix it? > Can you prov

Re: Creating Menus in CGI

2004-03-19 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please don't cross post, use one list first, if your question isn't answered satisfactorily then try the other... > Dear Friends, > > How to create menus using Perl CGI? > > Any help in this regard will be great. > What do you think a "menu" is? You will need to be more specific with your que

Re: hash hanging up browser

2004-03-22 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > > The following code is hanging up the browser and I think it has something > to do with the hash having keys array and values array. There is no error > message, just the browser taking a really long time. Any help would be > appreciated. Works fine with 3 line, 12 word 1 kb text file

Re: Unique problem using checkbox in Perl

2004-03-25 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > >I am using the Perl CGI module to generate HTML form elements. One of these elements is a > checkbox. Following is my definition of this checkbox > >print $q->checkbox(-name=>'want_media', > -checked=>'checked'); > >The problem is, when the page gets

Re: Show/download file from a non public folder

2004-03-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> > Hi, > > I have files(.jpg, .pdf, .rtf, .xls) in the following non-public folder: > > /home/alex/documents/ > > I need to show these files (jpg), or allow the download (.pdf, .rtf ...) from a script for users who already are authenticated and have a session opened in the server (this part is

Re: Show/download file from a non public folder

2004-03-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> ... > >>I need to show these files (jpg), or allow the download (.pdf, .rtf > ... > > ...) from a script for users who already are authenticated and have a > > session opened in the server (this part is already working). > > > Gr - I promise to read slower. > > Set DefaultType applicat

Re: What to use for Perl form Validations?

2004-03-26 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > > I have created some HTML forms using the Perl CGI module. Now I need to perform client-side > validations on those forms. Examples of these validations include checking if numbers alone have > been entered in a price field, checking if the e-mail field is in the correct format etc. >

Re: Output Unicode

2004-03-30 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi all, > > Does anyone know how could I print a UTF-8 HTML page (like Google's one)? > > Which modules I need to use? > > Is perl able to do that? > > Thank you. > You may find some useful help in, perldoc perluniintro perldoc perlunicode perldoc utf8 I suspect it can, just don't know mu

Re: How to undine a value

2004-04-02 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I find I'm undefining variables my assigning an > unitialized variable to defined value to make it > undefined (as exemplified below). > > Is there a better way to do this? > > my $k; > for($i = 0; $i < $c; $i++){ > if ( defined $k ){ > print $x[$k]; > my $t; # intentionally und

Re: Redirect using .htaccess or ?? ( kinda [OT] )

2004-04-08 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> On 07 Apr 2004 22:54:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B McKee) wrote: > > >Yeah, ok, this isn't completely on topic. Please humour me (or at least > >flame me politely). I need to redirect people to a perl-CGI script > > > >I have written a perl script that generates a series of active web >

Re: Interview Questions

2004-04-20 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Dear Friends, > > Please provide me a list of Interview questions that are frequently asked in > Perl. > This has what to do with CGI? I would also suggest that if you post this message in a more appropriate forum that you state your reasons for wanting them. If you are trying to learn wha

Re: Print statement

2004-05-13 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > > Is there any way in which I can tell perl where to print my data. i.e. > > Here is my .html That doesn't look like HTML to me? I am thoroughly confused, can you provide better information about the issue? As a hunch you might want to check out one of the various template kits, Templa

Re: System()

2004-05-12 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi, > > I have tried: > > system("zip", "-r", "archive", "*"); > > But this tells me that the file "*" cannot be found. > I guess the shell thinks that I want to pass the quoted string "*" and not > only the * character to match all files. > > I have succeeded with: > > system("zip -r \"arch

RE: Escaping quotes in variable content

2004-05-11 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post... > This is better, replace the quotes with nothing and then build your input > tag. > Better? You have destroyed the data. Stay away from my information with your substituitions. [snip code that should not be used in production] > > I hope this helps Anyone readin

OT: Re: Browsers?

2004-05-14 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> > On 14 May 2004, at 15:58, Werner Otto wrote: > > > Is there any way in which I can make my site appear the same in all > > available browsers? > > No. > > (I'd be very impressed if you could even make it appear similar in > Emacspeak, JAWS, Firefox, and Lynx). > > Work to public standard

Re: What could prevent a cookie from being set?

2004-05-07 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi all, > > I am using CGI to set a cookie: > > > # create cookie: > $packed_cookie = $query->cookie(-NAME => "cookieName", > -VALUE => "cookieValue", > -EXPIRES => "+10m" ); > > # set cookie:

Re: Perl on Apache

2004-05-04 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post... > I'm not an Apache guru, but I had a similar problem on Linux. You need to add > the following directive into a "conf" file. I've never installed Apache on > Windows before so I'm not sure where you need to put it. On Linux I added it > to "default-server.conf", but there

Re: replacing characters in a string

2004-05-19 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> I cant find a simple perl function to replace characters in a string. Im > trying to inserts strings like "bob's" into a database and need to convert > that to "bob''s" so that sql doesnt whine when i do an insert. > > Any suggestions? > There are regex's and the tr/y functions/operators? But

Re: how-to log in proceedure

2004-05-19 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> > > I working on a rather complex database cgi program and i've never done much work with user logins. Ideally I woudl love to set up a secure login which will verify passwords aggaints data stored in an SQL table. The modle I wish to use ie below. The area I need help with is the proper way to

Re: String Variable

2004-05-20 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> hi there, > > I've got the following example: > > system ("ping -a $hostname | cut -c20-30"); > > how do I get the following result which is (is alive) into a string > variable as I keep on getting 0 > > Please help. > Seems like you might want to post these types of things to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: writing to a file

2004-05-20 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
> Hi > > I have a very simple cgi script that I have put onto a webserver. I want > to write to a log file when it is run. My problem is that the open file > command always fails (and I get the "openFailed" message in my browser). > (even if i try opening for input it fails). I have created the fi

RE: writing to a file

2004-05-20 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
Please bottom post... > Also, the first line, > > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > > What if the server isn't a UNIX server, but an IIS server? Doesn't this line > have to change? > Careful, Unix is an OS type, IIS is an application software group. It is my understanding (which could be very wrong)

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