Content Management Forum

Thanks!

# enable .pl AddHandler cgi-script .pl # open index for requests to this folder first DirectoryIndex index.html index.shtml index.pl # for folder request process them through index.pl # NOTE REWRITE BASE IS HARD CODED FOR THE DIRECTORY RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /beta/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d RewriteRule . index.pl [L]

Then having the index.pl grep though a tab delimited text file to get and template page (which template to use is part of the data file) and fill in the template using data from the tab delimited spreadsheet. I don't want to post the entire index.pl code because it is far from complete: I may be finished by the end of the week. The index file replaces the title and sections of the template with the actual content.

Q> In this application would you not want to have the person use FTP to upload the data file? Would he need a script so he can post the data file onto the server?

sniplet of the index.pl file that grabs and replaces the verb (content he wants to change)

$category = $ENV{REQUEST_URI}; $category =~ /\/beta\/(.+)/; # acton is the product code $acton = "$1"; ... and later ... open(CATALOG, "catalog.txt"); while ($line=<CATALOG>) { if ($line =~ /\t$acton\t/is) { ($template, $product, $title) = split("\t",$line); ... and later ... open(TEMPLATE, "$template.html"); $good = read TEMPLATE, $html, 100000; close(TEMPLATE); $html =~ /<title>(.+)</; $html ="$`<title>$title<$'"; $html =~ /[[product]]/; $html ="$` $product $'"; } print "$html"; ... and later close(CATALOG)

I've had a discussion with somebody who would be interest in having a members pages on a website ... I may adapt to be able to have a password on each $line element and it would need to have a web interface for members to update their pages, the word FTP would draw a funny look from them.