why spend $180 / year if you don't have to to? Start simple and build
in the complexity when you have to. Sometimes you'lll be surprised how
far the simple and cheap solutions will take you. You're just wasting
your time and money if you start with a complex solution to a very
simple problem. these are just my words of advice. i am no expert, but
as an engineer I can't stand to see someone build the 1$ bridge for
$10.
for your problem of updating a list of concerts all you need is a
simple script that reads the concert list file and displays it on the
webpage. If the edit flag is turned on like
myscript.php?us er_wants=edit
then you just display the concert list inside of a textarea field like
this perl code below:
open(F, $file_path) or die "could not open '$file_path' $!";
flock(F, 2); # lock file
print"<form action=/myscript.php method=POST>
<textarea name=message cols=75 rows=20>";
if ($password eq $pass & defined $user_wants){ print <F>;}
print"</textarea>";
Then some code like this to finish it off:
close(F);
echo '<CENTER><P><b > Enter Password:</b> <input type="password"
name="password" >
<input type="radio" name="user_want s" value="display" checked>
Display/ Edit Page
<input type="radio" name="user_want s" value="edit"> Save Changes';
print"<input type=hidden name=file_path value=$in_file_ path>";
print"<input type=hidden name=referer value=$referer> ";
print"<input type=hidden name=passwords_ list
value=$in_passw ords_list>";
print'<p> <input type="submit" value="Submit/ Update"> <p> ';
Spend the $180 per year when the above is no longer a solution as your
files are several MB large AND you have customers ready with these
large files.
