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January 11th, 2000, 10:16 AM

Tantris

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Ok,

First of all, I am a beginner, so please bear with me as I am certaint his problem is insignificant from your higher perspective.

I am attempting to install the free Simple Search script into my home page, www.tantris.net. The problem is, when I enter a query at www.tantris.net/search.html I get a server error. This is certainly because I have misconfigured and mismodified the search.pl script.

One of the potential problems is that I have included a style sheet. I know that when using perl with "" it is important to put the " to indicate that this is not perl script. Could some similar action apply to the } brackets used in CSS?

Any help is appreciated. When I try to use this script I get a server error.

Thanks, the script follow,

TantrisKB@hotmail.com

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Scripts Archive at: #http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/
#
# Copyright 1996 Matthew M. Wright All Rights Reserved. #
# #
# Simple Search may be used and modified free of charge by anyone so long as #
# this copyright notice and the comments above remain intact. By using this #
# code you agree to indemnify Matthew M. Wright from any liability that #
# might arise from it's use. #
# Define Variables #

$basedir = '/www';
$baseurl = 'http://www.tantris.net';
@files = ('*.htm');
$title = "PS - Search Results";
$title_url = 'www.tantris.net';
$search_url = 'http://www.tantris.net/search.html';

# Done #
##############################################################################

# Parse Form Search Information
&parse_form;

# Get Files To Search Through
&get_files;

# Search the files
&search;

# Print Results of Search
&return_html;

sub parse_form {

# Get the input
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

# Split the name-value pairs
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs) {
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

$value =~ tr/+/ /;
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

$FORM{$name} = $value;
}
}

sub get_files {

chdir($basedir);
foreach $file (@files) {
$ls = `ls $file`;
@ls = split(/s+/,$ls);
foreach $temp_file (@ls) {
if (-d $file) {
$filename = "$file$temp_file";
if (-T $filename) {
push(@FILES,$filename);
}
}
elsif (-T $temp_file) {
push(@FILES,$temp_file);
}
}
}
}

sub search {

@terms = split(/s+/, $FORM{'terms'});

foreach $FILE (@FILES) {

open(FILE,"$FILE");
@LINES = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

$string = join(' ',@LINES);
$string =~ s/n//g;
if ($FORM{'boolean'} eq 'AND') {
foreach $term (@terms) {
if ($FORM{'case'} eq 'Insensitive') {
if (!($string =~ /$term/i)) {
$include{$FILE} = 'no';
last;
}
else {
$include{$FILE} = 'yes';
}
}
elsif ($FORM{'case'} eq 'Sensitive') {
if (!($string =~ /$term/)) {
$include{$FILE} = 'no';
last;
}
else {
$include{$FILE} = 'yes';
}
}
}
}
elsif ($FORM{'boolean'} eq 'OR') {
foreach $term (@terms) {
if ($FORM{'case'} eq 'Insensitive') {
if ($string =~ /$term/i) {
$include{$FILE} = 'yes';
last;
}
else {
$include{$FILE} = 'no';
}
}
elsif ($FORM{'case'} eq 'Sensitive') {
if ($string =~ /$term/) {
$include{$FILE} = 'yes';
last;
}
else {
$include{$FILE} = 'no';
}
}
}
}
if ($string =~ /<title>(.*)</title>/i) {
$titles{$FILE} = "$1";
}
else {
$titles{$FILE} = "$FILE";
}
}
}

sub return_html {
print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";
print "<html>n";
print "<head>n";
print "<title>PS - Search Results</title>n";
print "<style>n";
print "div { font: 12pt/20pt comic sans ms, comic sans, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1cm; margin-right: 1cm; text-align: justify }n";
print "div.2 { font: 10pt/15pt comic sans ms, comic sans, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: .5cm; text-align: left }n"
print "em { color: red; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt }n";
print "em.sign { color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt }n";
print "A:link { color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11pt }n";
print "A:visited { color: #993300; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11pt }n";
print "A:active { color: blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-size: 11pt }n";
print "</style>n";
print "</head>n";
print "<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#CC9966" link="#0000FF" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#0000FF">n";
print "<div>n";
print "<center>n <em>Results of Search in $title</em>n </center>n";
print "Below are the results of your Search in no particular order:<p><hr size=7 width=75%><p>n";
print "</div>n";
print "<ul>n";
foreach $key (keys %include) {
if ($include{$key} eq 'yes') {
print "<li><a href="$baseurl$key">$titles{$key}</a>n";
}
}
print "</ul>n";
print "<hr size=7 width=75%>n";
print "Search Information:<p>n";
print "<ul>n";
print "<li><b>Terms:</b> ";
$i = 0;
foreach $term (@terms) {
print "$term";
$i++;
if (!($i == @terms)) {
print ", ";
}
}
print "n";
print "<li><b>Boolean Used:</b> $FORM{'boolean'}n";
print "<li><b>Case $FORM{'case'}</b>n";
print "</ul><br><hr size=7 width=75%><P>n";
print "<ul>n<li><a href="$search_url">Back to Search Page</a>n";
print "<li><a href="$title_url">$title</a>n";
print "</ul>n";
print "<hr size=7 width=75%>n";
print "</body>n</html>n";
}

February 5th, 2000, 05:48 AM

ryanh

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Yep...

use the quote operator qq// or q// when you include a lot of complex code to print...

look up the differences between the two, basically, qq// will interpolate any variables you hae within the text, while q// won't...

If you are just printing the straight text, it's safer to use the latter...

March 9th, 2000, 12:26 PM

samplecode

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When debugging CGI scripts it sometimes helps to run the script from the command line with -w e.g. perl -w script.cgi

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ryanh:
Yep...

use the quote operator qq// or q// when you include a lot of complex code to print...

look up the differences between the two, basically, qq// will interpolate any variables you hae within the text, while q// won't...

If you are just printing the straight text, it's safer to use the latter...[/quote]

March 18th, 2000, 07:45 PM

DrFaustus

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Why dont you just place the style sheet in an external file and include:

print "<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="/mystyle.css">n";

Hope this help, good luck

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