Re: Users creating and updating pages .. with cgi only.... how?

use regex to replace < and > in the user input

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:18 AM
Subject: Users creating and updating pages .. with cgi only.... how?


>I have a client who wants to set up  a method for his users to have their
>own pages on his site.  He wants to control the overall "look and feel" of
>the pages, so he wants to have users choose from a range of templates for
>their pages, then enter their own information.
>
>Many of these users will have little or no idea of HTML, but some might.
So
>he wants to restrict users' use of HTML.  Also there's a security risk with
>letting users add HTML to pages.
>
>I'd usually use ColdFusion for this kind of application, but in this case
we
>don't have ColdFusion available.  I have to use CGI only.
>
>Anyone have any ideas for how I could do this?  I don't really want to have
>to build a whole script from scratch  the budget's not going to stand the
>cost of that.
>
>Cheers,
>Mike Kear
>AFP Web Development
>Windsor, NSW, Australia
>
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