
Installation

   To install this system, edit the file gna-config.pl and the variables
   on top of mkrdbedit.
   
Using dbedit.

   1. Set up a directory for CGI scripts. The web administrator will have
   to add a line to the web configuration file which looks like

ScriptAlias /gna-forms/ /var/local/gna/uu-gna/forms/

   In this example, a request to deliver web address
   http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/gna-forms/ will execute a CGI script in
   /var/local/gna/uu-gna/forms/
   
   2. Run "mkrdbedit" in the script directory. The script will prompt you
   for various pieces of information.
   
   Hint: for designing a new database table. One of the columns of you
   database table should be a "key" column which is unique for each entry
   in the database table.
   
   Hint: For names. Instead of having a single field called "name", it is
   a good idea to have separate fields for first_name, middle_name,
   last_name, and suffix_name.
   
   3. Edit the template file. rdb-edit will generate two files. One is
   the CGI script which will be run when the WWW address is called. In
   general, you should not modify this file. The other file is a template
   file. The template file ends in suffix .pl and controls what the
   output of the table form looks like.
   
   It is written in perl, but if you know HTML, you should be able to
   piece together what the file does.
   
Why we are releasing this

   The purpose of the Globewide Network Academy is to create a database
   of distance education courses. We are also a 100% virtual corporation.
   In the process of maintaining our database systems, we have developed
   perl scripts are useful to us, and may be useful to the WWW community.
   
   
   Because the purpose of our organization is not software development,
   we do not have the infrastructure to maintain these scripts. Therefore
   we are releasing these scripts to the general user community in the
   hopes of creating an informal community of people who can use these
   scripts. 
