Website Design Forum

**altonpost** · 06-20-2002, 05:45 PM

Hiya

im looking for some sort of message center that I can place on my main page to draw peoples attention...Not a forum but some sort of bulliten board that people can post too..is there any such animal out there ?

Thanks

jeff

**Tiggy** · 06-20-2002, 05:58 PM

The only thing that I can think of a bit like that off the top of my head is NewsPro... I know it would allow an administrator to create accounts for people to post newsworthy information, but I can't remember what sort of support it had for anonymous posting (if any) as I never needed that feature.

I'm not sure where to get it any more, but I'm sure a google search or a quick look at cgi.resourceindex.com will find the script rather quickly.

**redcircle** · 06-20-2002, 06:28 PM

Check out http://squitosoft.angrymosquito.com I will have such a thing done in a few days.

**altonpost** · 06-20-2002, 07:55 PM

News pro...its that a actual progrm for a site...im just looking for something to ad to my main page..to get people to come back...my current main page is.... http://www.altonpost.net/main.php

I feel like there is nothing on my main page...to draw people back ....I wanted to create some kind of interface and felt like a message board for my local community ( or Some other suggestion would be appreciated )

not a forum...Im already running phpbb2 on my site....I just want something on my main page that anyone could post on...just trying to draw people. ? Any suggestions ?

Thanks

Alton

**Tiggy** · 06-20-2002, 08:09 PM

NewsPro is a Perl script that you can include into any page you want by using SSI - or IIRC you can run it as a stand alone if you want.

The input pages and news output are kept seperate, so you can put the first X messages in a page and have a direct call to another (either to the script or a page where it is included) to get the rest of the news/comments. Each post is marked with date, time and author, which makes it easy to identify regular posters - and there is an archive feature but I can't remember much about how that works.

Sounds the closest solution to what you want that I can think of.

**altonpost** · 06-20-2002, 08:35 PM

argh..im losing my patience with this ( newspro )..ive done everything right...cant figure it out...is anyone bored...I would be more than hapy to supply my ftp account...if you feel like helping ?...uh...I I know you that is !

Thanks

Jeff

**altonpost** · 06-20-2002, 10:33 PM

ok...help me...maybe its my cgi-bin...I have never used it ?...I havent ever had any problems before ? It must be a prob with my cgi-bin.....Dog gone it....I wanted to use this program

argghhh

Jeff

**Tiggy** · 06-21-2002, 03:20 PM

Have you ever installed a Perl script before? If not, here are a few tips.

* make sure your paths are correct (path to Perl and to config files etc)
* make sure you upload all your Perl files in ASCII mode.
* CHMOD the scripts to be exectuable, most Perl scripts usually have good documentation about this (need help understanding permissions? - http://websiteowner.info/tutorials/s...ermissions.asp )

This should fix most of the common problems...