Seeking yet another script . . .

mommie_geek · 12th February 2003, 01:05 PM

This one might be a little more difficult, but I'm going to try and describe what I need.

I am running a fiction (and fan fiction) archive on my website. What I would like would be a script of some sort that would work dynamically within the website to find and display stories for specific categories instead of me having to code the links to the stories individually.

I know this would probably need a MySQL database with a script on the front end, but I don't even know where to begin to look.

For more details on what I'm going for, here is an example: http://www.fanfiction.net (Beware of the pop ups!) When you select a category on that site, it pulls up all the sub categories, or the stories in that category/subcategory.

Is there anything like that out there, or will I have to dive in and start plugging away at learning full blown PHP (or CGI) for myself?

Euge · 12th February 2003, 01:28 PM

Have a look at www.HotScripts.com

I did a search for "categories" in the php section. Maybe this one will work:
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/19030.html

UH-Matt · 12th February 2003, 01:46 PM

Speak to "phpevo" on these forums, he does excellent PHP scripting and i doubt this system would take him very long to code for you!

Matt.

mommie_geek · 12th February 2003, 02:05 PM

I tried to private message phpevo and got an invalid user name. :- Is that the correct username?

UH-Matt · 12th February 2003, 02:07 PM

Try: "evo4ever"

DrPoppers · 12th February 2003, 02:52 PM

Have a look at this

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/19513.html

Its a postnuke module (www.postnuke.org) and they mention the fanfiction site in the description.

mommie_geek · 12th February 2003, 04:39 PM

It looks like exactly what I'm looking for, but I'm not familiar with Postnuke. What are they all about? It seems like I would have to install their postnuke module first ( ??? ) and then this other module.

Has anyone used any Postnuke modules?

DrPoppers · 12th February 2003, 04:56 PM

Postnuke is really rather simple, it's a content management system that was a fork of the phpnuke project. It runs news, polls and manages users etc. It's dead easy to install and runs pretty well. You then install additional modules into the system such as a gallery, event calendar etc and I'm assuming the fiction module runs similarly to these.

There are absolutely loads of extra modules available and it uses themes so you can quite easily change the look of your pages.

I've used a mixture of phpnuke and postnuke over the last couple of years without any problems.

It is dead easy to install using the installation script (it just asks for database name, password, username) and sets itself up.

Hope this helps

Euge · 12th February 2003, 04:57 PM

Except when I visit their homepage http://www.fictioneer.net/ I get tons of errors.

UH-Matt · 12th February 2003, 04:59 PM

[quote author=Euge link=board=7;threadid=351;start=0#msg2192 date=1045069054]
Except when I visit their homepage http://www.fictioneer.net/ I get tons of errors.
[/quote]

Looks like someone deleted the themes folder - Not a script error.

mommie_geek : I would say try it out in a private folder. See if it works how you want - worst that can happen is you waste 10 minutes installing it

DrPoppers · 12th February 2003, 05:06 PM

I noticed that, although the download link works ok.

mommie_geek · 12th February 2003, 06:16 PM

One more question (and thanks so much for all the help so far!)

If I install it say to directory /test and find that I like it and can use it, then reinstall it where I want it, will I have to have a new mySQL database, or will the install simply write over the database I'm using?

DrPoppers · 12th February 2003, 07:33 PM

possibly, but if you back up your db before moving it you can always restore it after moving. I don't think any pathnames are stored in the database so probably just moving the files would work.

DrPoppers · 12th February 2003, 07:36 PM

Just found another one for you, this one is perl though I think.

http://scripts.21stcenturyhost.net/

mommie_geek · 13th February 2003, 04:47 PM

[quote author=DrPoppers link=board=7;threadid=351;start=0#msg2208 date=1045078591]
Just found another one for you, this one is perl though I think.

http://scripts.21stcenturyhost.net/
[/quote]

I'm trying this one, but now I'm having a problem. I thought I would inquire here before going to support, because this is more of a scripting issue (I think)

I loaded the cgi scripts/files into the directory mainwebsite_cgi

Then I followed the instructions of the script and created a directory in the cgi-bin called stories.

Now, when I go to run the program, I get the following error:

Fatal Error
Could not open /home/user/cgi-bin/stories/text/genres.cgi: No such file or directory

Now, the directory structure of the script is like this:

/cgi-bin
---------/stories
--------------------/flags
--------------------/members
--------------------/templates
--------------------/text

All of the actual program files are located in the /cgi-bin/stories directory.

So, what did I do wrong?

Edited to add: Ok, I figured out where to go to change the path settings, but I guess what I need to know now, is what should my path be?

UH-Matt · 13th February 2003, 04:54 PM

its trying to open:

"/home/user/cgi-bin/stories/text/genres.cgi"

That path doesnt exist, you need to use the absolute path to your account.

mommie_geek · 13th February 2003, 05:14 PM

What would the absolute path be?

Would that be home/user/mainwebsite_cgi . . .

or would it be mydomain/cgi-bin/ . . .

UH-Matt · 13th February 2003, 05:17 PM

"/home/virtual/site01/fst/var/www/cgi-bin/stories/text/genres.cgi"

But the site number needs to be your site number.
Can you email our support@unitedhosting.co.uk with your domain and username so we can get your site number for you.

(im not in the office to do it right now)