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TopWed, 26 Jan 2005
Jan 26, 2005, 11:36
[home/webdesign/perl_scripts/FileCABINET] I added two new features to FileCABINET lastnight and this morning. FileCABINET is the database script which shows the various programs I have for sale at Intelliscript.net. It allows users to search the database, purchase and make payments with an integrated shopping cart; it generates XML PAD files for software download sites, and lots more. The two added features are RSS Sydnication and an automated Froogle feed. RSS (Really Simple Sydnication) allows you to license your content to other sites. It also allows people to subscribe to your content if they want to keep tabs on what’s going on without visiting your site everyday. They can add the ‘feed’ to their newsreader, and this reader will automatically show you when there is new content to view. FileCABINET lets each script have its own feed (in case someone is interested in subscribing to late-breaking information on any particular script. It also generates a summary RSS feed covering all of the scripts. Froogle is Google’s integrated shopping search engine. Google asks you to monthly upload a text file containing certain information about your products for sale. Now FileCABINET will generate this file automatically so it’s always an up-to-date reflection of correct prices and information about the scripts. FileCABINET has only sold one copy— not exactly stellar compared to a script like Auto FollowUp or Crossword (a Scrabble-style game). But it’s becoming one of the most time-saving and efficient programs I’ve written. ~Jason
FileCABINET with RSS Feed and Froogle Feed
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Fri, 21 May 2004
May 21, 2004, 00:42
[home/webdesign/perl_scripts/FileCABINET] Well, I’ve made a huge advance and learned a lot about processing cookies tonight. And about headers for XML, and so much more. Headers are such finicky things. You’ve got to send them at the right time and with the right information or everything gets mucked up. I was never too concerned about it before, but now that my scripts send XML to the browser, or cookies, they all need to handle headers just a little differently. It wouldn’t be such a big deal if I did what lots of other programmers do: multiple files to run a program. But I like everything consolidated into one file, so I have to use lots of brain-cells to figure out how the server will know what it’s supposed to do. I’ve spent a few hours and fixed up FileCABINET so that it has an integrated shopping cart. It’s cookie based, much better than what was there before. People won’t lose things from their cart like was happening before. Maybe more sales will result. Here’s hoping. I also have changed the text links to image links— but not sure I really like that yet. It does increase download times for the page. I used IE’s _search window (a special pane that opens on the left side of the window). I’m curious to know how various browsers handle this. Austin, that’s a challenge for you: try to fill up a cart at Intelliscript.net and tell me what happens. I’ve been SO BUSY with work lately. It’s good, and it’s bad (for my back). Night night. Jason
Shopping Cart Integration
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Wed, 12 May 2004
May 12, 2004, 23:55
[home/webdesign/perl_scripts/FileCABINET] Still doing TONS of programming. I added a random feature to FileCABINET so that a ‘Today’s Highlight’ can be automatically generated, randomly choosing a script from the database. Last night I finally figured out the code to sort this multidimensional array on any column! Ugh, that was months in coming. What it means is that I added a new field to the database called sort (different than order) which displays the scripts in the order of your choice. This is nice if you want to put one script at the top of the list for a few days. Next is to develop the cookie based shopping cart instead of the query string cart I currently use. Then I’m focusing on integrating the FAQ Engine script into FileCABINET so that Frequently Asked Questions can be generated online by users instead of through the current mail-me-using-a-webform method. Then I can order, respond to, delete, ignore etc these questions as I like. Gotta love programming. That reminds me, Law & Order programming is almost complete and looks like it’s going to be AWESOME. ~Jason
More FileCABINET Development
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Thu, 06 May 2004
May 06, 2004, 23:56
[home/webdesign/perl_scripts/FileCABINET] I discovered something pretty cool today— when submitting software it’s much faster if you have a PAD file created with all your data in it. You simply point another site to your PAD file, and all the form fields get automatically filled in: name of program, name of programmer, company address, file size, description, keywords, etc. The list goes on and on. Not having to type this stuff in on every site makes a huge difference! I created a couple of PAD files (for NotationMachine and ServiceBuilder) using a Windows program, and it worked like a charm. It got me thinking too… what if I made the FileCABINET software I wrote automatically generate PAD files! It meant I had to learn a little more XML, but I was up for the challenge, and it paid off! Now every file in my downloads on Intelliscript.net has it’s own PAD file, and it’s created automatically every time the XML is called for. You simply add the script’s ID number to the URL followed by .xml and FileCABINET does the rest. For example, FileCABINET’s unique ID is 23, so http://www.intelliscript.net/FileCABINET.pl/23.xml I’m starting to feel a little cocky! ~Jason
Automatic PAD Files
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