1. Linux Webserving Exe
What file would I need to put in my cgi-bin folder in order to have EUPHORIA
serve up some data for me? I'd love to serve info from an EDS database or
something! BTW, my site is hosted on a Linux box.
How would I access it? What would I need to imbed in my HTML for EUPHORIA to
give me the data? And how would my EUPHORIA program need to output data?
puts()? print()?
Thanks for all the help! :)
-ck
2. Re: Linux Webserving Exe
From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
>
> What file would I need to put in my cgi-bin folder in order to have EUPHORIA
> serve up some data for me?
This message prove very much the need for proper documentation about using
Euphoria for web-programming. To me it was a good help first to install Apache
server + MySql + PHP and make it run on my own PC first (Apache is better than MS
Personal Web Server I suppose).
Rom
3. Re: Linux Webserving Exe
- Posted by irv at take.maxleft.com
Nov 15, 2002
On Friday 15 November 2002 11:38 am, CK wrote:
> What file would I need to put in my cgi-bin folder in order to have
> EUPHORIA serve up some data for me? I'd love to serve info from an EDS
> database or something! BTW, my site is hosted on a Linux box.
>
> How would I access it? What would I need to imbed in my HTML for EUPHORIA
> to give me the data? And how would my EUPHORIA program need to output data?
> puts()? print()?
>
> Thanks for all the help! :)
Hi CK:
This, and Rom's comment about the lack of documentation, looks like an
opportunity to write a tutorial. As it happens, I have an upcoming need for a
template-driven web-based database app to maintain a database of about
100,000 customers. If that is along the lines of what you want to do, perhaps
we could collaborate on this, and turn the discussion into a tutorial?
First of all, in my cgi-bin directory, I have pdexu, get.e, machine.e,
wildcard.e, strtok.e, database.e -- standard Eu files, with read-only
permissions for user apache (pdexu must have read + execute permissions set)
demung.e, html.e -- my own file to decode data passed to apache from the
user's browser, and routines to help in creating html without having to
hard-code it all. (r/o) You can get these files from the RDS website
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/cgi.tar.gz
Be sure to create a cgi-errors directory (readable & writeable by all) off
your / directory. This is where Eu will write error messages.
Download that package and install the files, then try to connect to
http://localhost. You have to get that much working before there's
any way to write the connections to your database.
Regards,
Irv
4. Re: Linux Webserving Exe
C. K. Lester writes:
> What file would I need to put in my cgi-bin folder in order
> to have EUPHORIA serve up some data for me? I'd
> love to serve info from an EDS database or something!
> BTW, my site is hosted on a Linux box.
> How would I access it? What would I need to imbed
> in my HTML for EUPHORIA to give me the data?
> And how would my EUPHORIA program need to
> output data? puts()? print()?
If you go to the Recent User Contributions page,
and use your Web browser to View the Source
to contrib.htm, you'll see that there's a <form> ... </form>
section for the File Search. Copied below, but
it might get messed up with line-wrap...
<form method=GET action="cgi-bin/asearch.exu">
<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=600>
<tr><td width=80 nowrap></td><td width=120>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=+1 color="#990033">File
Search:</font></td>
<td width=300>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=-2>
<input type="CHECKBOX" name="dos" CHECKED><font
color="#FF8080"><b>DOS</b> </font>
<input type="CHECKBOX" name="win" CHECKED><font
color="#8080FF"><b>WIN</b> </font>
<input type="CHECKBOX" name="lnx" CHECKED><font
color="#60EE60"><b>LNX</b> </font>
<input type="CHECKBOX" name="gen" CHECKED><font
color="#808080"><b>GEN</b></font>
</font>
<input type="text" name="keywords" size=38>
<br><font face="verdana, arial, geneva" size=-2 color="#333333">Type one or
more words.</font>
</td>
<td width=90><input type="submit" value="Search!"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
The above HTML code is a form that lets the user
specify platforms and keywords. The Euphoria
program source that is executed when the user
clicks "Search!" is available if you click the
"Powered by Euphoria" link. The program name
is asearch.exu and it's located in my cgi-bin directory
with execute permissions turned on. asearch.exu
reads an EDS database containing all the programs
in the archive. It outputs the HTML page
that the user sees as his search result
(one magic line has to be output first, then the HTML page).
Suppose the user searches the WIN platform only,
for "win32lib derek". Your browser will transmit the
URL (see address section of your brower).
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?win=on&keywords=win32lib+de
rek
What asearch.exu sees is just the part after the '?':
"win=on&keywords=win32lib+derek"
This is made available to asearch.exu in the
query_string environment variable:
getenv("query_string") or maybe
getenv("QUERY_STRING")
Maybe that will help you to get started.
Good Luck.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
