Re: [MacPerl] web site search script

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

>I am a web design intern with very little perl experience. Had never 
>heard about macperl until yesterday.
>(I hope you don't think that I am intruding : )

Not at all - welcome!

The MacPerl mailing lists are many.  Most of the discussion of CGI 
programming in MacPerl occur on a different list:

MacPerl-WebCGI <macperl-webcgi@macperl.org>

>We're developing a site in a mac environment & we need a search engine
>that would look for words within our site & display appropriate 
>links. Since this is on a mac, I would assume that perl-based cgi 
>won't work.
>Where can we get a macperl script that would do it?

1) MacPerl is Perl.  MacPerl differs from Unix Perl, for example, in 
that CGIs need to be saved in a different form; "CGI Script" instead 
of "Plain Text".  There are also a few Unix to Mac platform 
differences, but the similarities greatly outnumber the differences.

2) I don't know of any canned scripts; maybe someone else can help.

3) *BUT* ESPECIALLY if you are inexperienced, I suggest you don't use 
MacPerl for this application.  Because the way that Perl 5.004 works, 
on which MacPerl is based, and the way the MacOS works, it is easy to 
hang your server with MacPerl if you don't know exactly what you are 
doing (and maybe even if you do).

I'd look for canned scripts in C/C++, Applescript, or maybe Frontier. 
Just my $0.02.

-David-


David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com

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