Counter Manager 3.0b
Copyright 1999 Timothy Cornett
and Nassau Web Technologies


This script is freeware. To get the
Registered version of this script only costs
$40.00. This money will go to produce
even more quality scripts. The registered 
version of this script is version 6.0 The author
and Nassau Web Technologies can not be held 
liable for any damages or loss of data
arising from the use of this script.

If you have any problems or inquiries
you can contact the author at:
webmaster@nwebt.cjb.net

This script has been tested on UNIX 
however it should work on windows 95/NT
as well.

http://nwebt.cjb.net 
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NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE CGI-BIN ACCESS TO USE THIS SCRIPT!!

FEATURES:
1. Allows users to sign up without any intervention from the webmaster.

2. Sends e-mail to webmaster notifying him that a new account is set up.

3. Sends e-mail to user with his user info

4. Shows user a page notifying him that his account is set up and with a
   copy of the code to put on his/her page.

5. Requires that every field MUST be filled in.

6. Allows users to change thier counter values

7. If a person tries to use a two word username, automatically inserts an _.

8. Will not allow two user names to be the same.

Files countained in the zip download are:
	counter-signup.pl - The Perl sign-up script.
        	cntr-config.pl - Counter Manager Configuration script. (required, but not executed)
	counterman.pl - The Main Perl script.
        	counter.html - A sample sign-up HTML file.
        	user.db - The Password file
        	file_id.diz - File Description
	README - This file.

Setting this script up:

1. Be sure the the path-to-perl on the script is the same as that
   on your machine. Default is #!/usr/bin/perl

2. Be sure that everything is uploaded in ascii, except the images

3. Open cntr-config.pl in your favorite
   text editor and change all the variables to match your setup

4. Open the count.cgi file in your favorite text editor and change the variables to match your setup

5. Create the directory where you want the counter data files to be
   stored. (it MUST match the value you gave for $cnt_dir)

6. Create the directory where you want the password file to be stored.
   (it MUST match the value you gave for $data_dir)

7. chmod the script to 755 so it is executable.

8. chmod the data file to 777 so it is writable.

9. Upload the scripts to your cgi-bin directory and upload the user.db
   file to the data directory ($data_dir)

10. Create a directory called digits in your root HTML directory

11. Create a directory under the digits directory called "a".

12. Upload the spacer.gif and the dash.gif to the digits directory using binary mode.

13. Upload the 0-9.gif files to the a directory under digits using the binary mode.

14. The counter data files will automatically be made when a user signs up.

15. Send me email to let me know where it is being used!

Comments, feedback and suggestions to webmaster@nwebt.cjb.net
