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

Hi, Mike.
Take a look at
http://www.squishedmosquito.com

Follow the "Escapade Demo" link.  What you'll see is a bunch of info on the
engine and Escapages, but if you go directly to

http://www.squishedmosquito.com/cgi-bin/esp?PAGE=login.esp

you'll see the webmail demo working.  Within the demo itself is a button for
"Preferences".  This allows you to set your color theme and is different for
each user.

The webmail demo is a very rudimentary demonstration of the customization
potential.  The webmail demo only changes colors and images, but entire
layouts can change, all without a database on the backend.

The entire engine to run this thing is available as a cgi binary for both
LINUX and NT and takes up a grand total of around 500KB.  No knowledge of
cgi, Perl, ASP or PHP is necessary.  Databases aren't necessary to change
the preference templates, but if you have a database project, this little
gem runs MySQL, with more database ports in development.

Please let me know if you have any problem accessing areas of the site,
since the site itself is running the latest beta of the engine.

FWIW, any time that we get tired of the colors or layout of our site, we
change ONE FILE and the entire site changes -- layout, colors, fonts, you
name it....

Karin

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Karin Ransdell  kransdell(at)squishedmosquito.com
Escapade Development Team
Squished Mosquito, Inc.
http://www.squishedmosquito.com  or  http://www.escapade.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:19 PM
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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