Can anyone write a cgi file that will call the last links in the data base on a shtml page? that is not neccesarilly genrated by the links engine but just a random page anywhere on my site?

And also could this page's layout be generated by template also?

Anyone?

Widgetz?

Elliot?

Help!

Uh..Go to the Resource Center and download and install the lastlink Mod!

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Elliot the lastlink mod dosent work like ssi!!!
i cant just put
<%lastlink%> on anypage...it doesnt work

Uh...You have to define the tag in your sub site_html_home page in the following manner:


It will not work on other web pages, unless you use the same LASTLINK codes that you are using in the sub_build_home_page routine IN ALL OTHER sub-routines.

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No elliot i mean if i decided to upload a page to my site called...... myfavoritethings.shtml

i cant put <%lastlink%>

i want to be able to call it via ssi!

so anypage that i UPLOAD in shtml i can call it

not only genrated pages

Welp...Now, I understand what you are looking for...The codes would have to be hacked in the nph-build.cgi to create a file.

I don't have time to do it...but as a model you can look at the Site of the Day Mod and combine the LastLink with it to create a separate file, then use SSI calls to include the file.

Another suggetion would be to create another file via nph-build.cgi and copy the lastlink codes in a sub-routine that creates this new file.

Which would be easier to do? The latter option.

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Okay but i would prefer that it has nuthing to do with the actual nph-build.cgi

So that it just access the links db
so it is a seperate file called lastlink.cgi

that does this

open database file

get last 5 results

print results (using template.html)

close database


unfortuanately my knowledge in perl does not allow me to do this for myself.


Please help!!!

Bobsie?

Widgetz?

Thanks

Uh...It would have to use the nph-build.cgi to create a separate file that contains the lastlinks. Then you can use SSI to call this text file!!!!!!!

How else do you suppose to do this without using the nph-build.cgi file? Create a duplicate cgi script that contains everything you need in the nph-build.cgi script?? Now that would be double data entry.

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Okay well the bottom line is that i still need these codes so that i can call lastlink via ssi

so elliot if you have the time?
or if anyone else
it will be much obliged1!

Thanks

Gian

Have you attempted the modification that Eliot described? It is a pretty easy modification, and you might learn something about Perl rather than having to rely on others to provide completed codes for you...

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[This message has been edited by oldmoney (edited January 27, 2000).]

Okay well here is my attempt

and well i am still getting problems....it is a mixture of sotd.cgi and the lastlink codes

i called it lastlink.cgi

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$txtfile = '/path/to/lastlink.txt';
# Required Librariers
# --------------------------------------------------------
eval {
($0 =~ m,(.*)/[^/]+,) && unshift (@INC, "$1"); # Get the script location: UNIX /
($0 =~ m,(.*)\\[^\\]+,) && unshift (@INC, "$1"); # Get the script location: Windows \
require "links.cfg"; # Change this to full path to links.cfg if you have problems.
require "$db_lib_path/db_utils.pl";
require "$db_lib_path/links.def";
$build_use_templates ?
require "$db_lib_path/site_html_templates.pl" :
require "$db_lib_path/site_html.pl";
};
if ($@) {
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "Error including libraries: $@\n";
print "Make sure they exist, permissions are set properly, and paths are set correctly.";
exit;
}
# ========================================================
eval { &main; }; # Trap any fatal errors so the program hopefully
if ($@) { &cgierr("fatal error: $@"); } # never produces that nasty 500 server error page.
exit; # There are only two exit calls in the script, here and in in &cgierr.
sub main {
# --------------------------------------------------------
my $LASTX = 9;
open (DB, "<$db_file_name") or &cgierr("unable to open database:$db_file_name.\nReason: $!");
my @lines = <DB>;
close DB;
for ($i=$#lines; $i>=$#lines - $LASTX; $i--) {
chomp $lines[$i];
@tmp = &split_decode ($lines[$i]);
%tmp = &array_to_hash (0, @tmp);
open (LSLN, ">$txtfile") or &cgierr ("Can't Open FILE: $txtfile. Reason: $!");
print LSLN &site_html_link (%rec);
close LSLN;
$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} and print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "Lastlinks are ready\n";
}


any reason why it is erroring out?

[This message has been edited by Gian (edited January 29, 2000).]

What errors are you receiving? Helps us to help you.

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A nice first effort... try changing
to
That's the only problem I could see, but I haven't tried it...

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Thanks oldmoney!!

Well i tried the solution you gave me...and still no luck....
I looked through my error log and all i am getting is premature end of script headers?!!

Does this shed any light?

Thanks

Gian

Is the file being created?? The original SOTD script had similar problems when you execute the file via your browser.

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Nope no luck
It doesnt even create the file!

Regards

Gian

OK, a couple of obvious questions...
1) are you correctly putting the full path to your .txt file (this is not a URL)?
2) are you uploading the lastlink.cgi as ASCII, and is it CHMOD to 755?
2) have you tried creating the .txt file manually, CHMOD to 666, and running the script?

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Well

1 Yes
2 Yes
3 No.....tried it...and it still didnt work...


Could it be that i dont have a modification for site_html as sotd.cgi does?

Regards

Gian

You need to have a sub-routine in the site_html.pl file like the SOTD.

Also, are you using the EXACT codes you posted in this forum. If so, you need to change /path/to/ to the ABSOLUTE path to your lastlink.txt file.

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Okay i added these codes...like the sotd.cgi. And it is still not working
Any ideas?

Gian

I would change the following:


to the following:


Then you will have to create a separate sub-routine than the sub site_html_link in the site_html.pl.

BTW: What codes have you used in the site_html.pl?

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I used the sotd codes in site_html.pl

is that wrong?
or do they have to be a lastlink version?

Gian

They have to be unique to the fields that you want to appear for the lastlinks!

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Ohh.....well now i am confused
so i am writing a subroutine for lastlink to go in site_html.pl

ANd how exactly do the (%tmp) and (%rec) differ from each other?

Thanks

Gian