[Nms-cgi-devel] An idea for guestbook.pl

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I was working on guestbook.pl tonight, and I noticed that we were still 
using Matt's antiquated way of rewriting the html file using heardocs.  Why 
can't we simply let the user define their own design?  It should be 
relatively trivial to use some basic html parsing so that the guestbook is 
read in, the header information remains intact, and the guestbook entries 
are inserted when the begin statement is encountered, before the footer 
gets spit back out.  For instance:
<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body>
   *BLAH*
   
   *BLAH*
   </body>
</html>
The algorithm would work something like this: first, the guestbook page is 
read in.  It is gone through line by line, printing each line if it does 
not contain , until the first line where  is 
encountered, at which point the loop exits.  The entries are then 
printed.  Then the rest of the page is printed.  This way, entries are 
still sorted by newest first, and the integrity of the page remains 
intact.  Better yet, since users of MWS already have his formatting, they 
won't even notice a difference.  However, newer users will be able to 
design their page any way they choose, and yet their guestbook will still work.

On an unrelated note, I am still having problems with CVS.  I downloaded 
WinCVS and installed it successfully, but I couldn't figure out how to use 
it.  CVS's super-massive manual wasn't much help either.  I guess I'll just 
keep posting to my perlmonk site until I can figure this monster out...