Hi Paul,

I have a dir called ~/public_html/ATLAS-FLAT/ 

This is where I have my web pages for the flat booking

I needed to run chmod 777 on this dir to allow the scripts to write on it.

I suggest you make something similar e.g. ~/public_html/LHCB-FLAT/

This will help keep things simple

The scripts etc for making the flat booking pages are in a dir called

/ppe_data/sv006/home/kennedy/FLAT-BOOKING

There is a readme but it isn't much cop

Basically it is broken down into 3 parts

1) webpages (to make the web pages)

There are a few scripts to look at

a) make-2003 
b) make-web.ksh
c) generate_month.plx

They are basically scripts that sit on top of each other

you will need to edit

make-web.ksh and generate_month.plx

you need to change the dirs in make-web.ksh to yours

generate_month.plx makes the web pages

you will need to look at this script and edit the part containing the web
page in it

edit the list on options for <SELECT NAME ="name">  <SELECT NAME
="budget"> and <SELECT
NAME="room"> ..

Leave the <!--add user --> <!--add bud --> tags     these I use for adding
people later

and edit the path to the cgi script

<FORM
ACTION="http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~kennedy/cgi-bin/$month$year.cgi">

That should be it with the web pages..


2) Now the cgi stuff

in
/ppe_data/sv006/home/kennedy/FLAT-BOOKING/cgiscripts

again a 3 script sctucture

a)make-all-2003
b)make-cgi.ksh 
c)generate_cgi.plx

I think you only need to edit the generate_cgi.plx script

you'll have to change the path where you find it 

/ppe_data/sv006/home/kennedy/public_html/ATLAS-FLAT/

and you'll have to change the arrays that test for the names and budgets

@namesarray and @budarray

These arrays correspond to the fields (e.g. VALUE="JAK/Gla/") found in the
web pages

Once you have edited this you should be able to generate the cgi scripts


3) Updating scripts
in
/ppe_data/sv006/home/kennedy/FLAT-BOOKING/scripts

These scripts will allow you to add users and budgets if you need without
the need to go into
each html file and edit it..

 -- there is a README that may be of some help --

3 scripts again (both add_usr and add_bud have same structure so I'll go
through one)

a)add_user_to_all
b)add_usr.sh
c)add_usr.awk

you need to edit

add_user_to_all change the paths (there are two in here)

(do the same for add_bud_to_all)

NOTE: When you add a budget or a user you need to edit the cgi files..
      The best way to do this is to edit the generate_cgi.plx script and
      re-make all the cgi files.. you need to update the @namesarray and
@budarray
      to reflect that you have added a new field.


I hope that covers everything. It can be a bit fiddly at first but once
things are running it
should be smooth...

cheers

johnk
p.s. any problems just ask, I go away tuesday but hope that we can get
thigs going B4 then..