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Cool Tools
The
following tools and tips have been compiled to help you make more
of your site. If you are just beginning to consider beefing up your
site, we strongly recommend that you take a look at ITC Training's
course Beyond HTML: Tools for Interactivity. You may register
to take this workshop or view the on-line
materials.
The tools are made available to you on an "as is" basis: they are
not maintained and should they fail to work as expected, may be
removed from the site without warning. Please report any problems
you find with them so that we can attempt to keep the site current.
- Easyform
and Easymail This simple yet robust form handler and e-mailer
is our most popular tool. You create a Web form, and then choose
which part of the package you want to use: Easyform or Easymail.
Easyform will collect the data into a file compatible with Excel
and other spreadsheets. Easymail will send the form data to you
as e-mail.
- LSearch
(little search) A quick and relatively powerful search engine
that you can install on your own site. LSearch comes with editing
tools for you to create an index of keywords for the pages in
your site. It also comes with a sample search form and results
template. We use LSearch for the Web Development Support section
(that's it at the bottom of the page).
- Password
Protect Your Web Site with .htaccess .htaccess allows
you to restrict access to all or part of your Web site. Visitors
will be prompted for a user name and password before they may
enter the pages you have protected. We now offer a barebones utility
for creating simple .htaccess restrictions for username/password
pairs or restricting to virginia.edu. Check out mkhtaccess!
- Redirects
This advanced feature is used when you want to rename or delete
a Web page. When someone tries to browse to the "old"
page, they will be automatically redirected to the "new"
page.
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Web Database examples Examples of using MS Access to generate
HTML reports, Cold Fusion with a Microsoft Access database, Active
Server Pages (ASP) with a Microsoft Access database, PHP with
a MySQL database, and Perl DBI with a MySQL database.
- PHP
for processing forms Example of using PHP to collect information
from Web forms.
- VForum
Discussion Package A simple discussion forum for your site
that is quick and efficient.
- Custom
Error Pages Create specialized error messages for your site
instead of the standard "An Error Has Occurred! URL Not Found".
- SSI
Documentation A fairly technical document with examples for
using Server Side Includes (SSI).
- test.cgi
Install this script on your site for testing purposes. Also a
good example of perl scripting.
- Old
U.Va. CGI Script Examples These scripts are mostly out of date,
but may provide some use.
- Security
and scripts
Links to some execellent information on making your CGI
scripts and Cold Fusion applications
secure.
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