Need some help to understand how some scripts work - First Post

sryder posted this at 14:31 — 23rd February 2001.

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Joined: Feb 2001

Hi,
In case you don't notice this is my first post on these forums - hopefully not my last ! Seems like an excellent place to help each other, could be a great help to me and I could be a great helper to others....

Anyway, I have three scripts that I would like to have somebody explain to me exactly how they work. Is it okay if I simply post the links here for the community to look at or should I go about it another way ??

They aren't that big but here are the text files that you can view ! If you have any questions - please feel free to post here or contact me directly ! They are used to send variables from Flash, but I am not a great Perl expert and need to know how they really work

http://www.webryder.com/read.txt

http://www.webryder.com/write.txt

http://www.webryder.com/test_mail.txt

Also if it isn't too much trouble - what would it take to run these in a Windows enviroment ??

Thanks Again !

Shawn Ryder
[email protected]
http://www.webryder.com
Webryder Internet Design and Consulting

Gil posted this at 21:14 — 23rd February 2001.

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Joined: Apr 1999

All of those files have comments explaining virtually every step of the process. Don't be afraid to look at the code, it should make some type of logical sense.

Perl is fully able to run in a Windows environment. You will need to get the ActivePerl interpreter from activestate.com and set it up for your webserver. Then you need to edit those perl files and change the directory of the $database variable to wherever your flash files are located. Make sure that you address the note, your path to the flash files must use / slashes, not the traditional \ for windows. So your end result for the $database variable will look some thing like c:/web/flash (I think). If that doesn't work, take out the colon.

Good Luck.

Gil Hildebrand, Jr.
Internet Consultant
New Orleans, LA