How does Seti stats work Ees?

[Pace]

I'm curious as to how both your stats page works and how you get your data from Seti. I'm a newbie to databases but as I'm a budding webdesigner I want to learn about this. Combining it with Seti is my aim so this is specific to Seti - honest

You mentioned you compile the query pages into a page from a template - if we plan to combine the Seti help site I'm doing and your stats pages then would you want me to redesign the template?

Also, from the stats that Sisyfos posts you can see the style I like in tables - alternatiing rows and column colours - is this style possible for your script?

Thanks,

Paul.

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[Guru]

Pace what's up with your web page?
Oh btw I signed your Guestbook yesterday Hehe!

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[Pace]

Why? What's wrong with my page?

No-one ever seems to sign my guestbook! I don't know why! I've got loads of sites and the guestbook has been going for about 4 months now I think and I've received hundres and hundreds of hits!

Thanks for signing it anyway (that guy Gordon always slags me for having everyone from Scotland signing it (and I know everyone on it!)

Paul.

[Pace]

Oops - yea, I've found a little 'undocumented feature' which allows access to the old optimisation guide if you view the news item in which it was mentioned!

Paul.

[Guru]

Is this the URL that you lost in the guide? http://www.tweakfiles.com/video/agpinfo.html

Edit: Have you been drinking Pace? Here is the other link that you lost: http://pages.tca.net/roelof/setispy/latency2.exe , oh a third one http://www.winmag.com/windows/win98/winalign.htm

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[This message has been edited by Guru (edited 05 October 2000).]

[Pace]

No - I've not been drinking

The fact is I was reading the guide in Wordpad! I was able to get I think the VIA link right but the others were no hopers.

As I say - work calls but do keep updating and send me the guide periodically (i.e. after major updates like version 3 notes!).

What do you think of splitting the guide up into different sections - i.e. a general computer/bios tweak page and a separate Windows advanced guide? This means we'd have a BIOS guide to help Unix users too - I know that they'll probably know the stuff but I think that a dedicated Windows guide would be better. What do you think? Separate guides for each topic or a 'one-stop' shop guide for all tweaks?

Let me know what you think, thanks,

Paul.

PS: Ant's added a jolly good link to Seti - see the main page

[Ees]

Back to topic

How does the stats-page work?

There are a couple of phases in the process:
- Some Perl-scripts gather the data from the S@H webpages, process them and stuff them in a (MySQL) database.
- From this, some other scripts will create (1) a small flat-text data file and (2) all the pictures. These are uploaded to the webserver.
- On the webserver, some scripts will take the data file as input and output the pages you see. The sorting etcetera is handled by the script. The images are static.

The scripts that generate the webpage indeed use templates: drop in another template, get another page.

This works thanks to Perl's wonderful HTML::Template module (a module is a sort of Perl-extension). The template basically contains the HTML-code for the page, with some added logic; for instance, you can use "template variables" ("I want the 'NAME' to be displayed here") and "template loops" ("do this for all members"). The contents for the variables and loops are supplied by the script. The big advantage of this approach is that the scripting logic is largely decoupled from the actual HTML-markup.

In short: changing the layout is as easy as writing another template. Alternating row colors would require a minor change (and I'm not sure if it would improve readability) but can certainly be done.

If you want, I can send you a template.

Martin

[SteveC]

well, it aint working at the moment!!

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[SteveC]

Oh, and martin, you need to update your link on your 'Join' page:

Download the screensaver from here.

the word 'here' points to 2.04 - that's an old one now!

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[Pace]

Guru: Which one is which? I've added the missing section as well (disk write optimisation) and I've finished my GUI beginner's guide.

Martin: Thanks! btw, when the stats go down (like at the moment ) - what is usually the problem? I know you've had disk full errors before but do you ever have any other problems? You mention that Perl has a Html template but I'd be doing my database pages in ASP - I presume that this is the same (ie: is it just a webpage with a web query rather where you'd normally have content?).

Where should I ask all these questions btw! Here, GHW or Alt Life? I've a friend who might be doing web hosting but on Apache so I can't use ASP as standard - anyone know how to get ASP to run on Apache?

What known problems are there with ASP/VBS based pages - he's said it's crap (in full Linux is great mode) but I was wondering in what way?

Thanks,

Paul.