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I was trying to figure out how would you write a function in MySQL using C. I saw that theres a CREATE FUNCTION syntax but am confused on how to compile and write a C function. For example if I wanted to write a function that added an extra period after every period and called it ADD_PERIOD()...

Hi, My problem is how do I create a rank column for a query. Meaning depending on a students score they will have a rank of 4 for example. Also if two students ahve the same score there rank should be the same and the next students rank would be 2 more. I tried using a global variable but dont...

I have a question about .nsconfig files. Is there a way to extract the userid to a perl program so the perl program knows which user is accessing it. For example a page is password protected and when a user accesses it through a .nsconfig file he/she then fills out a form. Is there a way for...

How do i change the id of a program from nobody to a username. I want to do this so I can write to directories without chmoding it 777. I know theres a way to do this but I'm not sure how. Thanks a lot!

Hi I'm writing a program that allows users to check in, check out, or delete books from a library. all the data is in a html table. I was wondering if there was an easy way of reading data from a table. Or do I have to parse it looking for the <td> and <tr> tags which is teadious. Thanks for any...

How can I get my program to check something once every hour up to 12 hours in which case it would end. I want it to sleep in between checks as to limit excessive memory use. Is there a way to put the program to sleep or a good way that you guys know of to save memory during this process. Also...

Hi I was wondering if there was a way to launch an application over a plug-in. The problem is opening a pdf with the plugin of Acrobat doesn't include a search that the regular application of Acrobat has. I was wondering if theres a way with javascript to open up the application of Acrobat...

I wrote a small upload program. If an error occurs during the opload I want the program to print an error to the screen and then redirected back to form after 5 seconds. Meaning first it says &quot;Sorry file too large&quot; and then is redirected back to the original form. I use this to...

My question is pretty simple. I'm uploading a file from a user and trying to upload it to a server. However for some reason I can't open up a new file to store the information. open(FILE, &quot;>$filepath&quot;); print FILE $CGI{'upload'}->{'Contents'}; close (FILE) || die &quot;Error close...

Hi I'm trying to write a perl program that allows a user to upload files from a server. For the uploading process I'm just using the ftp functions which work fine. I was wondering though how do I get a one of those windows that popup and show the directories and files. Just like when you save as...

I have a cgi program that writes to different webpages. One webpage is in a directory with permissions of 000. I was wondering how I could changes its permissions within the perl program. So I would ended up changing that directory from 000 to 777 then write to it and then change it back to 000...

I wrote a simple CGI program that output data to various HTML pages due to category chosen by the user. This works perfectly except when the data has to be written to a webpage that is behind a simple password folder. I have the password to this folder but simply dont know the code so I can...

Hi I have a simple Perl program that writes out to HTML documents. It works fine except for to the one HTML file that is in a password protected folder. I know this is a filesystem level access problem but have no idea how to access Win2000. So thats why I came here for help after asking the...

This question is basically the same as PerlCoders but I wanted to get more in depth. I wrote a simple CGI program that output data to various HTML pages due to category chosen by the user. This works perfectly except when the data has to be written to a webpage that is behind a simple password...