Links to Scripts

Accessing files, pages 518-533 of the text.

• Show the contents of a file
  • Script
  • Source
• Read and Append to a file
  • Script
  • Source
• Update a file
  • Script
  • Source

Mailmerge, pages 437-439 of the text. Allows form data to be saved to a file, or sent via e-mail. You define what the input form looks like, and what the output looks like. Mailmerge is only for writing files, not reading them.

• Mailmerge Source
• Guestbook example
• Guestbook source
• Mailing Form example
• Mailing Form source

SWISH and wwwwais, pages 439-453. This is the script that allow users to search for keywords on your site. The book explains how to download it and install it. Note that words inside HTML tags are not indexed. This includes heading tags and title tags, too.

• Index to my www.cs.fiu.edu site

Push, pages 566-569 of the text. The clock example from the book, and an example that changes the background color and text color every second.

• Clock
• Change color script

Pull, pages 565-566 of the text. A simple example that does a countdown.

• Countup
• Countdown. Doesn't use scripting, uses <META http-equiv="refresh" content="2.url=1.html>

File Upload, pages 553-556 of the text.

• Standard Input
  • Standard Input Script
  • Standard Input Source
• View Uploaded File
  • Uploaded Script
  • Uploaded Source
• Similar to the line counting script in the text
  • Do a calculation on an uploaded file
  • Calculation Source

Cookies, pages 536-541 of the text. A few scripts that show how cookies can be set and retrieved

• Set the cookie
  • Script
  • Source
• Get the general cookies, wait to see the timed cookie go away
  • Script
  • Source
• Get the general cookies and the restricted cookie
  • Script
  • Source

CGIWrap, not covered in the book. Here are two links to the same script. The script tries to access a file that has rw access only for downeyt. The first script will fail to open the data file. The second will be able to open the data file and append data to it.

• Using CGIWrap
• CGIWrap general information
• Without CGIWrap. Here is the URL to the actual path in my directory:
  http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~downeyt/cgi-bin/test_file_write.cgi
• Using CGIWrap. Here is the URL using CGIWrap
  
  http://www.cs.fiu.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~downeyt/test_file_write.cgi
  
  • Go to the cgi-bin of the www.cs.fiu.edu server
  • Execute the script cgiwrap
  • Pass two parameters to the script
    • ~downeyt, the root directory of the owner of the script
    • test_file_write.cgi, the name of the script to run in the user's directory
  • In order for CGIWrap to work on mongoose, the script to run must be placed in the public_html/cgi-bin directory of the user's root directory. The directory only needs rwx for downeyt, or for your account if it is your script.