Yeh I would have to agree with Ryan up there. But heres the difference in my case. It's true I dont know CGI at all, but I do know ASP, and it uses variable in much the same way as CGI. I followed the direction to the letter on a fresh board and PM3 just wouldnt move. Then someone said to install codebuttons and I said what the hell i tried evrything else why not. Allen was holding me up trying to help as well but he couldnt figure my problem out either.
With PM3 still not working I simply uploaded the Codebuttons .pl file to the cgi-bin and BOOM!!! PM3 was working. That simply made no sense to me at all, but concidering it was working I didn't care if it made sense. Then I installed the code for code buttons and PM3 has been working without a glitch.
PM3 adds a great feature to your site, and has worked right off the bat for hundreds of us. I wasn't one of the lucky ones I had to work at it. But look at it this way, when the author put that discalimer on that file (that most people obviously never read), it's said AT YOUR OWN RISK and thats what it means.
I know how long it would take me to write this program in ASP so I can appreciate the knowledge and time that went into it. The authors of these ( MODS ) can only take you so far, you have to do the rest. If that means you have to go out and buy a book and read about CGI for 2 months to understand whats going wrong with the scripts then thats what you have to do. noone has time to come to your house to install mods for you, just to keep people from flaming their mods on these boards.
From what I've seen these guys try to help people with the mods they wrote all the time. They gave you the mod free so obviously they want to see it work for you. But if you come with a negative attitude trashing thier work, how much help do you think your going to get from them or the main body of the community here. Real world or cyber world, noone likes a cry baby. I know I sound harsh but I've learned 4 languages by reading books and CGI is going to be the next one. In my book the ONLY way you can flame anyones mod, is by writting a better one, other than that, you aint got nothing coming
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