rline — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:48:25 +0000

Hey Merlin,

Thanks for going to this trouble...

I went to the page you set up, and downloaded the first 3 files. The 4th one wasn't there. I've had a look at the 3 files I got, and I'll be honest, I'm struggling!!!

Mainly because your site and some parts of the scripts are in German. I know it shouldn't throw me, but it does! I think because it's in a language I don't understand. I have to really concentrate to understand most perl scripts, but this seems to be making it really difficult for me. Probably most other perlers, who have been coding for longer than I have (a month!) would be able to grasp this no problem.

So, I'll keep playing around with what I initially tried, unless others have some ideas.

Thanks again...

here we go

merlin — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 07:26:31 +0000

http://www.kdive.ch/twf/

there are four files:
ticker.pl - there you (and anyone you want to) can add new entries to the file
setticker.pl - there the admin can change the entries
index.pl - that's the file i need to show the entries to anyone
ticker.pm - some variables

all the stuff is saved in a file called 'tickerdaten.txt', everytime you change anything there's made a backup copy 'tickerdaten_date_seconds.txt' in a subdirectory.

i need all the stuff for my frontpage. i show the news of our company with it. that's why there are two main categories: ticker and so called 'bildboxen'. ticker only contain text, bildboxen contain an image, title and some text. if you wanna use it all you'll need some template-files (for showing all the html-stuff around the data).

everything's in german, but i guess you're able to handle it with playing around with it.

i know it's not THAT clean coded, but it's my first thing with this size...

rline — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:28:28 +0000

Yep...

Mark Hensler — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:19:06 +0000

I'm assuming Perl... Is that right?

rline — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:59:18 +0000

Looking forward to it!

merlin — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:58:04 +0000

i recently wrote some code for doing exactly that kind of stuff...
i'll post the code in here by tomorrow.