CGI Readme

GUEST BOOK

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Cgi2)Usage of guestbook.pl:

Purpose:
This CGI reads the user filled informations from guest book HTML form and writes into your guest list HTML document file.

How to use it in your HTML:
1. Create your main index page file for your guest book (eg. index.html or guestbook.html) under your guest book web site.
2. Create another HTML file to add your guest lists (eg. guestlist.htm) under same directory and give "write" access also to this file.

So in your guestbook.htm file you can add like:
in top of page: you can have welocome text messages and your web board logo images
in middle: Insert your FORM <form method="post" action="/iicgi-bin/guestbook.pl"> And insert here all of your form elements for NAME,AGE, EMAIL,... for INPUT and TEXTAREA BOXES and SUBMIT, RESET BUTTONS

And insert the following HIDDEN tags with your valid VALUEs into the same form

Description for each hidden varialbes used here:

guest_book_dir -> Main index page directory name for your guest book

guest_book_file -> Main index page file name of your guest book

guest_book_title -> Title of your guest book

guest_book_list_bgcolor -> your guest list html page background color (default is white)

guest_book_list_txtcolor -> your guest list html page text color(default is black)

guest_book_list_linkcolor -> your guest list html page hyperlink color (default is browser default color)

guest_book_list_vlinkcolor -> your guest list html page visited hyperlink color (default is browser default color)

guest_namecolor -> your guest name's color (default is black)

create guestlist.htm under 'guestbook' directory. Give it 777 permission

bottom of page: you can have again some text messages, hyper links, logo images...

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So You will get the following Form

Guest Book

My Guest list

	Name
	Age
	Profession
	Address
	Email
	URL
	Views

WWW Bulletin Board

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Cgi3)Usage of wbord.pl:

Purpose:
This CGI reads the user filled informations(from the HTML form) and writes his/her messages to HTML format under messages directory, which is as sub-sub directory of your main web board directory, separate for each user's message. So his/her message will be available as separate HTML filename(eg.1.html,2.html,....).
And rest messages like his/her Name,Subject and current date,time, number of replie(s) for the same subject will be written into your main web board HTML file(e.g. index.html or default.html). So the informations listed in the web board will be available in the chronological order.

How to use it in your HTML:
1.In your main web board HTML page(eg. index.html),
in top of page: you can have welocome text messages and your web board logo images

in next line: some comment lines like:
<ul>  <li><a href="messages/0.html">My test topic</a> - <b>Liyon Rajkumar</b> <i>00:00:00 0/00/980) <ul>  </ul>  </ul>

in middle: Insert your FORM <form method="post" action="/iicgi-bin/wbord.pl"> And insert here all of your form elements for NAME, EMAIL,SUBJECT,MESSAGE,... for INPUT and TEXTAREA BOXES and SUBMIT, RESET BUTTONS

2.Create your main webboard directory under your website(eg. My website is available under "/myhome/htdocs" so I can create my main webboard dir as "wbord".) So in your HTML form, you have to add a line like:
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_basedir" VALUE="/myhome/htdocs/wbord/">

3.add the next line for your web board URL adddress
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_baseurl" VALUE="http://www.mywebname.com/wbord/">

4.add the next line for CGI-BIN location
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_cgi_url" VALUE="/iicgi-bin/wbord.pl">

5. add next line for your web board title
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_title" VALUE="My Perl Web Forum">

6. add next line for your web board index page url
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_index" VALUE="http://www.mywebname.com/wbord">

7.Create a sub-directory(eg. messages) under your main web board directory for writing all users posted messsages and give "write" access also to this directory.
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_mesgdir" VALUE="messages">

8.Create a TEXT file (eg. number.txt) to store number of posted messages under your main web board directory and give "write" access also to this file .
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_numberfile" VALUE="number.txt">

9.add next line for your main index page file name and give "write" access also to this file.
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_mesgfile" VALUE="index.html">

10.add next line for your FAQ file name.
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="wwwboard_faqfile" VALUE="faq.html"> </form>

bottom of page: you can have again some text messages, hyper links, logo images...

Create 'messages' directory under 'wwwboard_basedir' directory. Give it 777 permission

Create a blank 'number.txt' file under 'wwwboard_basedir' directory. Give it 777 permission

Give 777 persmission to index.html

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So You will get the following Form

This white board is provided for use by any person offering and/or seeking any business oppurtunities . Please ensure not to place any advertisement

[ Post Message ] [ FAQ ]

My test topic - Liyon Rajkumar 01:32:54 7/18/98 ( 0)

Post A Message!

CGI Email fully configurable form

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Cgi4)Usage of emailer.pl:

Purpose:
This CGI reads user filled informations(from HTML form) and sends them to single or two receipents mentioned in your HTML FORM's HIDDEN tag as email in a formatted output.
a) use "sendto" HIDDEN tag to send your HTML form input to one single email address only .
b) to send the same HTML form input to more than one email address, use "ccmail" HIDDEN tag also.

How to use it in your HTML:

in top of page: you can have welocome text messages and your web board logo images

in middle: insert your HTML Form <form method="post" action="/iicgi-bin/emailer.pl"> and you can have any number of fields and any type of fields like TEXT,CHECK,SELECT,RADIO, LIST etc boxes, including follwoing two or three hidden field types named:

sendto -> whom to send the mail to
(eg. <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="sendto" value="mycompany@mymail.com">

sendtitle -> title of the response page
(eg. <INPUT TYPE="HID DEN" NAME="sendtitle" value = "My company HTML Registration Form">

sendsubject -> for subject of the mail to be sent
(eg. <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="sendsubject" value = ""My company HTML Registration Form Entry">

Following tag is optional , this tag can be omitted if you do not want a same email copy to be sent (CC:) to some other email addres.

ccmail -> to send a same copy to another email address(as you needed you can add or ignore)
(eg. <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME= "ccmail" value = "myanotheremail@mymail.net"> </form>

bottom of page: you can have again some text messages, hyper links, logo images...

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So You will get the following Form

	Name:
	Email
	Address:

	Comment

	Please select your browser

	I want the upgraded version of emailer.cgi	Yes NO