Robert said:
Well finally some useful info. What first pissed me off was the very
first response. Then others felt the need to jump in and continue to
piss me off. I on the other hand asked a open honest question.
There are Posting Guidelines that are posted to this newsgroup
regularly. You really should read them first, before posting. One of
the most important guidelines is this:
* Nobody can help you if you don't post code.
The second most important one is:
* Post the absolutely smallest amount of code required to reproduce
the problem. If you post a 5000 line program, nobody will want to
read it and dissect it for you (unless you're willing to offer a
contract, and I go for $150/hr, two hour minimum paid in advance).
Your "open, honest question" can be summed up as, "Something's wrong.
I don't know what. What's the problem?" You may like it or not, but
that approach is very frustrating, and gives nobody any information
that we can actually use to help.
Any way thanks all for the flaming.
The point of the "syntax error on line 17" and the like is to point
out that you haven't shown us any code.
It takes way more than this little tit for tat to hurt my feelings.
Nobody's trying to hurt your feelings; I think the most that anyone
wants is for you to learn the rules before you try to ask questions.
Anyway I have not figured out what is wrong yet. But to answer your
question the card is generated when you click the preview button
when you click send the card should be created and an e-mail sent.
That says nothing useful at all. We don't know what the code that
generates this "preview" button, I personally can't tell if you're
supposed to click 'send' before or after clicking 'preview', and
nobody knows how the card is created, or the email sent.
This description is useless in helping anyone discover what is going
on, much less what is going wrong.
The last screen is a confirmation with what appears to be a properly
formatted URL but there is no page created thus resulting in the 404
error.
And this means... what, exactly? I can come up with at least three
valid interpretations off the top of my head, and I honestly can't
tell which one you meant. Nor can anyone else, I wager.
Scripts are enabled on my server and according to my web host the
directory permissions should allow the file to be written to the
server.
What directory? What file? What server? You've said *nothing* with
this sentence.
In another more friendly group we discussed permissions and this is the
text.
What is the text?
So I am not sure where to go from here. I run the site as a hobby
and get a good number of visits. I just thought this would be a
little neat thing to have.
What would be a 'little neat thing to have'? Nobody yet has any idea
what you're trying to do, how you're trying to do it, or if anything
even makes sense.
Thanks again
And to all the aholes out there keep it tight!!
You know, the 'aholes' you refer to have collectively more published
Perl books than probably anyone else (and theirs are better-reviewed,
as well). Good job pissing them off. I'm not even inclined to help
myself, other than to point out exactly how you went wrong in the
first place.
-=Eric
