UPOINT:: CGI Scripts: FAQ

Title: @1 Event Publisher: General
Brief introduction on features.

• Post events on your webpage via SSI. Events posted by visitors are pending approval by administrator. Events' icon images are optional.

Features:

Fully customized Admin Interface: Just create a normal template web page and place +++ (three plus signs) at where you want the results to be printed.

Admin modes: Administrator can search, add, edit or delete events.

Posting of events by visitors: The events will be temporarily kept separately until it is approved by the administrator.

Event icons: The zip file comes with more than 20 event icons. Users may optionally choose to include an event icon when adding new events.

Date sorting: Events are automatically sorted by date.

Number of events shown: Administrator may set the maximum number of events displayed.

Customization: Font size, face, color, the number of events displayed an so on are customizable.

Empty fields: Some fields such as "Venue", "Web", "Email" and "Public remarks" are optional during event posting. Empty fields are skipped and will not be displayed in the SSI output.

Searching of events: You may optionally create a popup window to the "user search form" if you have a lot of events in the database.

Public remarks field: This field is shown to the public.

Private remarks field: This field is only shown to the administrator (not to the public) in the admin mode. You may use this field for keeping confidential remarks for an event. Eg., the advertisement payment status, person to contact ....

The Limiters:

• If you are displaying the events in multiple SHTML web pages and wish to display the events of a category, call the script via SSI using the following formats:

To show all events under the category "Computer":
...eventpublisher.cgi?Icon=Computer

To show all events with the phrase "PC Fair" in the title:
...eventpublisher.cgi?Event=PC%20Fair

To show all events with held in "London":
...eventspublisher.cgi?Venue=London

Note: Replace space with %20

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