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karrella
Joined: Aug 19, 2005
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Posted: 2007-Feb-17 06:25
I have some customers at my store that want to know exactly when my weekly product arrives in the store. We get stuff every Wednesday between 10 and 5pm and some people like to beat everyone to the good stuff. 
Here is how I would like to be able to have it;
At the moment the shipment arrives, I will log on and click something or push a button on an administrator panel.
The "Stuff is here" Picture will light up and stay lit up until Tuesday night of the following week when it will turn off again and wait for us to activate it Wednesday.
My ultimate goal is to only have to click or enter one thing a week, without all the trouble of modifying html and uploading.
Anyone have any idea how I would easily do this type of thing?
Thanks
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Curt
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Posted: 2007-Feb-18 09:44
Perl script could be used to check a modified file. When the modified file hasn't been modified per a specific time, the perl script would then not load up the image. This would require SSI for an included Perl script routine that writes out html to an existing html document. Then you'd have another perl script where you'd push a button that would update the file and once again the image gets shown saying “Stuff is here”.
And I'm sure PHP has a similar solution.
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karrella
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Posted: 2007-Feb-18 22:38
Thanks Curt, I'm sure that will lead me down the right path. Any other peoples ideas are greatly appreciated!
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karrella
Joined: Aug 19, 2005
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Posted: 2007-Feb-19 01:54
A picture of the day script might do the trick as long as it had administrator type functions and not just a random picture type, unfortunately I can't seem to find anything like that.
It would be perfect if my home page displayed the picture. You could click the picture to view a page telling you what the picture is all about. At the bottom have a spot where I can put in my name and password and click activate.
I'm sure its not that hard, but its beyond my skills of creating things from scratch.
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Curt
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Posted: 2007-Feb-19 07:10
Yep, it would involve some coding up of perl. Can't get around that. You may find it necessary to hire a perl coder. The concept isn't that difficult. A wizard at perl could likely code something up in short order.
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