9075Display RSS Feeds Using JSMFeedhttp://www.creativyst.com/Prod/18/JSMFeed.pl is a Perl script that converts RSS XML feeds into standard browser side JavaScript in JSMsg convention. It takes a URL to an RSS feed as input and outputs a JavaScript file containing all the information from the RSS feed in JSMsg format. It can be called directly from the
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Attention Webmasters: Add a news section to your website at no cost. This will keep visitors coming back and also make your site look more professional. No programming is needed. Just copy newsfeed html code onto your site. You can decide which type of news stories that you want, and you can also customize the fonts, colors, and number of headlines shown.
Casthat is a web-based news aggregator program written in Perl. It supports web servers running on both UNIX and NT platforms. The only requirement for running Casthat is that your web server supports Perl CGI applications. Your Perl version must also include the IO::Socket module, which is standard in Perl 5, but which some web host companies forget to install. If you're not sure if you can run Perl CGI programs on your server, please first ask your ISP before you try to install Casthat.
WebThief is an extremely easy to use script intended for grabbing files and pages from World Wide Web via HTTP protocol. The WebThief works with httpget.lib library, which supplyed with this package.
To receive data from the web, you should specify just usual url address of file or web page.
Which routines provide httpget.lib library ?
($head, $body) = &HTTP_GET('www.domain.com/dir/file.ext') - This routine receives file being on url address in web via HTTP protocol. After receiving, this routine will divide received data to header and body.
$header = &HTTP_GET_HEADER('www.domain.com/dir/file.ext') - This routine receives the header of data being on url address in web via HTTP protocol.
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Unfortunately, now we can't provide the full demonstration of this script. At testing, some users may transfer too large files that would result in significant deterioration of the server speed and waste bandwidth.
FirstProductions Dining Guide allows users to browse and search the Chef Moz Dining Guide through a template-based interface customized by the webmaster. When a user requests dining guide information, FirstProductions Dining Guide will access Chef Moz and download the appropriate page. It will then scan the page for specific information that it needs, which is placed into variables. FirstProductions Dining Guide reads a template created by the webmaster and inserts the information obtained from Chef Moz in to the appropriate places. Because FirstProductions Dining Guide is templated-based, you have complete control over the look and feel of your dining guide.
Through a simple interface, you can retrieve the user's contact list, and use it, for example, to invite more people to use your website. This technique is used by Myspace.com, SMS.ac and other big websites.
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