It's alive!

[robinturner]

Well I am a happy Solri. I've managed to get my concordancing script woring and online. It's nothing spectacular, just a simple script that analyses a corpus of student essays and enables you to do a word count or concordance on an entered word or phrase, but what the hell, it's my first original (i.e. not standard form-fill stuff) Perl-CGI script, and I'm proud of it. It even has proper POD documentation too!

Planned features for the future:

• Search terms printed in a different colour
• Read filenames from the directory rather than listing them in the checkbox parameter
• Search for and retrieve entire essays

You can check out the code here - I'll put up a link to where you can see it in action as soon as I'm sure there are no fatal security holes etc.. Suggestions for improvements would be welcome.

Comments

[solri.livejournal.com]

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Do you mean I should have a feature to mail the results back to the user? That would be pretty easy.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Normally this is one of the easiest features to do in Perl - you just read in the person's address with the other form data, put it in a variable like $recipient, then

print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Form Data\n\n";
print MAIL "whatever you want to send them ...

Of course you need to open the mail program first. There are lots of example form mailing scripts on the web.