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Apr 27, 1999, 9:22 PM
mart
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Apr 27, 1999, 9:22 PM
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Hi,
JPD helps me with the mod of giving a user a max of records to add. I like to show the number of records, a registered user can add, the moment, he has the adding screen. I think it's possible, the info is already in the http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/forum/resources/Forum5/HTML/000827.html, but I don't know, how to change it, so the info appears in the screen when a user goes to add a record.
Apr 28, 1999, 10:12 AM
JPDeni
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Apr 28, 1999, 10:12 AM
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You can use part of the same code that you used in validating the record.

Add this to the beginning of html_add_form:
Code:
open (DB, "<$db_file_name") or &cgierr("error in validate_records. unable to open db file:
$db_file_name.\nReason: $!");
if ($db_use_flock) { flock(DB, 1); }
$count = 0;
LINE: while (<DB> ) {
(/^#/) and next LINE;
(/^\s*$/) and next LINE;
$line = $_;
chomp ($line);
@data = &split_decode($line);
if ($data[$auth_user_field] eq $db_userid) {
++$count;
}
}
close DB;
$left = $db_maximum_records - $count;

Then, before the line that starts with &html_record_form, add

print qq|You currently have $count records in the database. You may add $left more records.|;

I'm sure by now you understand about putting things within a print qq| statement, so what you actually add to your file may need to be a little different.


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