[newbie01.perl]

Hi,

Can't find this in HotScripts, not sure if this exist already, maybe someone from the FORUM can advise.

At the moment, I have some sort of INI/config file that I edit manually via vi. These config files are "simple" delimited file that are used by some of the scripts running on the server.

I want to be able to the same thing via cgi-bin, can anyone advise where to start. Basically, I want to be able to display the contents of the INI/config file in some kind of FORM or web page and then allow the user to be able to edit and save it at the same time.

Any advise on where to start will be very much appreciated. Am not sure if I should be using PHP instead of CGI-BIN but I thought the latter would be simpler to do.

Being able to prompt for a username/password prior to editing the file would be a plus ... :-)

Thanks in advance.

[wirehopper]

For PHP - this is a good start: PHP: parse_ini_file - Manual

It will read the file in for you and then you can use that to build up the form and edit it.

As far as authentication, this is a simple approach: Authentication, Authorization and Access Control - Apache HTTP Server