Revolution for CGI Scripts

[Mark Guzdial]

WOW!  I was hoping for a pointer -- what I got was a whole tutorial!  
THANK YOU!

Mark

On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 03:30  PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> on 4/1/02 7:01 AM, Mark Guzdial  wrote:
>
>> How does one get started exploring Revolution for CGI Scripts?
> It's great you will love it... forget PERL.
>
>> I don't
>> see anything in the built-in documentation nor anything on the website.
> Yes, no documentation released: Here's the quick version.. assumes you 
> have
> web space on a remote host in a virtual domain (i.e. your ISP/web 
> host...)
>
> 1) get a UNIX friend to download and un tar the engine (you might have 
> to
> get the engine from the Metacard site) you need for the platform you 
> will be
> one... Solaris or whatever..have them FTP that to you using binary
> transfer...  ( in my case, to our site and then I download to my Mac... 
> be
> sure to use binary transfer)
>
> 2) Now, upload that engine to your cgi-bin on the site, set permissions 
> to
> CHMOD 755... then take a look in your web master error logs and you 
> will see
> the path that the server uses to point to files in your public_html
> directory. This may vary from server to server
>
> 3) then you put scripts on the site, in your CGI bin like this:
>
> #!/export/vhost/org/g/greatsite/www/public_html/cgi-bin/mc
>
> --where the above is the path to files in your home/public_html
> --and simply points to the MC engine you installed
>
> on startup
>    set the directory to "../images"
>    put random(49) into ArtNo
>    put "taka_art_" &ArtNo&".gif" into nextArt
>    put URL ("binfile:header_art/"&nextArt) into URL
> ("binfile:taka_header_art.gif")
>  put "Done" into theResult
>   put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr
>    put "Content-Length:" && the length of theResult & cr & cr
>    put theResult
> end startUp
>
> now, set the permissions CHMOD 755 for the above script also.
>
>
> fyi the above script takes a random image from a folder (all the same 
> size
> of course) and copies it to another image... the html file that uses the
> image then has a different image in that same place. i.e. this is a 
> daily
> rotation of an image on site.
>
> Here is another script that processes a simple subscription on a form 
> and
> sends email off to subscribe the individual
>
> #!/export/vhost/org/g/greatwebsite/www/public_html/cgi-bin/mc
>  on startup
>     read from stdin until empty
>     put  urlDecode (it)  into tDataIn
>     split tDataIn by "&" and "="
>     put isWellFormedMailtoScheme (tDataIn ["email"]) into emailCheck
>     switch emailCheck
>       case "False"
>       put badEmail(fixYourEmail) into tResponse
>       break
>       case "True"
>
> put  tDataIn ["subscribe_mc"] into tRemit
> put tDataIn ["email"] after tRemit
>
>   put "---Valid Web Subscription--" & cr before tRemit
>     put "/usr/lib/sendmail -t" into mprocess
>  open process mprocess for write
>   write "From:" && "webmaster at hindu.org" & cr to process mprocess
>    write "To:" && "mylistAdmin at someListServe.org" & cr to process 
> mprocess
>  write "Subject:" && "Subscriber to Master Course" & cr & cr to process
> mprocess
>   write tRemit to process mprocess
>   close process mprocess
>   wait until the openprocesses is empty
>  ## now we send an acknowledgement to the person by HTTP
>  put url "file:../mc/subscr-mc_thankyou.shtml" into tResponse
>    replace "***Subscriber***" with tDataIn ["email"] in tResponse
> end switch
>
>   put "Content-Type: text/html" & cr
>   put "Content-Length:" && the length of tResponse & cr & cr
>   put tResponse
>
>  end startup
>
> ##this function is a bit "hokey" but works ... new regEx expressions
> ## should make this easier now... but haven't had time to re-write it.
>
>
> function isWellFormedMailtoScheme  email
>
>   # return TRUE if email is a legal email URI, else return FALSE
>   # We are not actually *validating* the email address, only its syntax.
>   # Per address specification rules of RFC822: Standard for ARPA 
> Internet
> Text Messages
>   # http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc822/Overview.html
>
>   # Basic syntax requires: one or more characters before the @ sign,
>
>   split email by "@"
>   if extents(email) <> "1,2" then return false # only 1 @-sign is 
> permitted
>   put email[2] into hostanddomain
>
>   # There are 2 options to check, domain-literal or domain-logical:
>
>
>   # domain-literal option:
>   # primitive network host address form, must have [###.###.###.###] 
> where 0
> < # < 256
>   if char 1 of hostanddomain = "[" then
>     if not last char of hostanddomain = "]" then return false
>     delete char 1 of hostanddomain
>     delete last char of hostanddomain
>     set the itemDel to "."
>     if the num of items of hostanddomain <> 4 then return false
>     repeat with x = 1 to 4
>       if not isNumber(item x of hostanddomain) then return false
>       if item x of hostanddomain > 255 or item x of hostanddomain < 1 
> then
> return false
>     end repeat
>     return TRUE
>   end if
>
>   # domain-logical option: (the "normal" form)
>   # this permits an arbitrary number of strings separated by ".", 
> ending in
> a domain name
>   set the itemDel to "."
>   put the num of items of hostanddomain into hostanddomainItems
>   if hostanddomainItems = 0 then return false
>   if hostanddomain contains ".." then return false # empty hosts not 
> allowed
>   repeat with x = length(hostanddomain) down to 1
>     if not ("0123456789.-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_" contains char x of
> hostanddomain) then return false
>   end repeat
>   return TRUE
> end isWellFormedMailtoScheme
>
> function badEmail
> put "<html><head><Title>There is a problem with your email address!"\
> & "</TITLE></HEAD><CENTER><BODY BGCOLOR=#ffffff> <FONT
> color=FF0000><h3>Sorry,"\
> & "there was something wrong in the way you entered your email. <br>"\
> & "Please go back and enter it again. Thank
> you.</H3></FONT></CENTER></BODY></HTML>" into fixYourEmail
> return fixYourEmail
> end badEmail
>
>
>> Thanks!
>> Mark
>
> I also have a REV "gadget" that I keep all my cgi's in and I can upload 
> them
> to site, set CHMOD automatically and then run them and "catch" and 
> returned
> data in a field... for fast testing i.e. avoids the FTP
> Client/browser/Bbedit loop for your dev and testing.
>
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