DM CGI Begginer??

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May 22 2004, 4:54 am
Hello Green Lime, One thing I havent learned about on byond with DM is how to make a CGI webpage. Could some people give me some reasource links to gather information about it. I wanted too make a Dyanamical webpage with byond so does any one know a hosting service that host dmb's like cgi webpages?

Also how do you find out what type of data is in a variable. Like if var/a = 12 that would be a number variable. How do u check and find variable types. Like whether its a list or what.

Thanks for any help.
May 22 2004, 5:25 am
Green Lime wrote:
Also how do you find out what type of data is in a variable. Like if var/a = 12 that would be a number variable. How do u check and find variable types. Like whether its a list or what.

Look up these functions:
istype
isturf
isarea
isobj
ismob
isnum
istext
isloc
isfile
isicon

There is no islist function, which would be one of the important ones in my oppinion; but istype(variable,/list) will work for that.
May 22 2004, 1:31 pm
Green Lime wrote:
Hello Green Lime, One thing I havent learned about on byond with DM is how to make a CGI webpage. Could some people give me some reasource links to gather information about it. I wanted too make a Dyanamical webpage with byond so does any one know a hosting service that host dmb's like cgi webpages?

Well, Nadrew has a demo on creating a BYOND CGI site on his hub somewhere. You could try taking a look at that.

Concerning webspace providers that support BYOND CGI, I think that http://www.dynehost.com does it. Try searching for posts by Oreldwin about it.
May 22 2004, 2:49 pm
May 23 2004, 6:08 am
When you define a variable in a form it goes to the default of a text box. So my first question is if u assigned a refrence to an object to that variable in the form would it stay as a refrence obj type or would it switch to a text box format? If it would how would u store variables like that in a form?

Second question is if I have a variable M = to a refrence of a mob. Then I had and down in topic I had href_list["Mobs"] would that be equal to the M variable?

Third question is what if I didnt know the exact number of form variables I needed. (E.g. Solder has a rank variable so I need a rank variable in the form, but other classes dont need the rank variable in the form). Most likly people would just say make two seprate forms for each class. But is their a way to go around that. Like maybe adding frm.vars+="Rank" and a Rank Text box variable would be made.

P.S. I know others for the third question would just say create a rank variable in one form and just place an if statement when displaying the form. But those who would say that dont get the point of what Im really asking in the third question. What I am asking is how could u make form variables more dynamic?
May 23 2004, 6:18 am
In response to Green Lime
Green Lime wrote:
What I am asking is how could u make form variables more dynamic?

Use a list, then index it with another variable.