Databases and CMS

[Scriptage]

I know that he knows what he's doing and I'm familiar with meta tags but using the word 'fraud' to describe a missing underscore in one of the fields seems a bit extreme. I checked his own website for validation and he has 100 errors. So it's obvious to me he's just nitpicking my programmer (one change at a time).

His HTML knowledge will have little to no bearing on how he handles PERL code, however, he does sound like a crackpot for throwing around those accusations. When you refer to your programmer, do you really just mean the HTML coder or does he actual program?

The CMS works properly but I don't believe the source code that the DB programmer changed can just be copied and pasted onto the live website. Am I wrong? If he changed field names, what is the easiest way to have him supply those changes without looking for a needle in a haystack?

Presuming that the code is written in PERL and he used the CGI module you would need to look through the program and find the references to the param() function, which could be written in two different ways depending on the paradigm used:

Functional:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use CGI qw(:all);
 
my $param = param('form_field_name');

Object Oriented:

Functional:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use CGI;
 
my $query = new CGI;
my $param = $query->param('form_field_name');

You would need to make sure that the field names in your HTML correspond to the names being retrieved by the program.

[Scriptage]

The website is riddled with errors by the way: [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://highlifeadventures.com/home111.php - W3C Markup Validator

[Cwilk]

thanks so much Scriptage... I'm just trying really hard to not lose this client on my print end. We've been doing their work over 7 years.

To answer your HTML question ... He's a coder (not sure about the actual programming part)

I also noticed that the DB programmers page has numerous errors. He'll probably blame my end.

[Scriptage]

It's really no problem. If you like you can send me the program and the HTML file and I'll read through and tally everything up for you.

[Cwilk]

Basically the my coder is copying and pasting the DB programmers source code verbatim into the website.

I'll let you know what that link is when he's done it and you can check that out.

[Scriptage]

Fair enough, the only problem is I won't be able to see the server side (PERL) code.

[Cwilk]

Fair enough, the only problem is I won't be able to see the server side (PERL) code.

Sadly enough we don't have access to that code either. ......

[Scriptage]

Sounds like a nightmare. I really don't know what to suggest.

[Cwilk]

I guess you're getting a better idea of what I'm going through now. But it looks like we're wrapping it up today regardless. So I'll let you know the outcome.