Documentation
SLOT MACHINE: V2.0
System Requirements
- Perl 5
- Server Sides Includes
- Sendmail
Preliminaries
- Determine the path to PERL 5 on your web
server host. Note that some web hosting companies run both PERL 4 and PERL 5.
Make ABSOLUTELY sure you are not setting this up under PERL 4. Ask your
administrator if you are not sure.
- Download the tarfile for this program and
save it to your desktop.
- Unpack the tar archive on your desktop using a
program that unpacks UNIX TAR ARCHIVES. If you don't have such a program then download
WINZIP FREE from SHAREWARE.COM.
- After you have unpacked the TAR archive you
will have a collection of folders and files on your desktop. Now you have to do some
basic editing of each of these files (or at least some of them). Use a text editor
such as wordpad, notepad, BBEdit, simpletext, or teachtext to edit the files. These
are NOT WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENTS they are just simple TEXT files so don't save them as
word processor documents or save them with extentions such as .txt or they will NOT WORK.
Note that there may be a some files inside of folders which are "blank".
This is normal.
Preparing the CGI scripts
Define Path To PERL 5
The first step is to open up each and every
file that has a .cgi extention and edit line number one of each script. Each of the
cgi scripts is written in perl 5. For your scripts to run they must know where perl 5 is
installed on your web server. The path to perl 5 is defined to a cgi script in the first
line of the file. In each of the cgi scripts the first line of code looks something like
this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
If the path to perl 5 on your web server is
different from /usr/bin/perl you must edit the first line of each cgi script to reflect
the correct path. If the path to perl 5 is the same no changes are necessary. If you do
not know the path to perl 5 ask the webmaster or system administrator at your server site.
Upload files and set permissions
Create a directory inside of your htmlspace
called slots, upload index.shtml into here and also the imagedirectory and all of its
contents such that the URLS to the slotmachine page and its image directory will be
- http://www.yourdomain.com/slots/index.shtml
- http://www.yourdomain.com/slots/images/
Create a directory inside your cgi-bin called
slots and upload files below setting all permissions to 755 except "emails" set
to 777 or 666.slot.cgi
emails
load.cgi
configure.cgi
Configure the .cgi files
configure.cgi
Edit the variables inside configure.cgi
REQUIRED AREA
- $slotcgi =
"/cgi-bin/slots/slot.cgi"; RELATIVE URL to slot.cgi
- $localurl = "www.yourdomain.com";
your domain name
- $width=100; width of slot machine images
- $height=100; height of slot machine images
- $title = "THE SLOT
MACHINE"; Title of
slot machine
- $odds = 100000; odds of winning (1 out of $odds)
- $imgdir =
"/slots/images"; RELATIVE
URL (not path) to the images directory
- $mailinglist =
"/path/to/cgi-bin/slots/emails"; FULL PATH to emails file (contains opt in email addresses)
- $mailprogram =
"/usr/lib/sendmail"; FULL
PATH to sendmail
- $adminemail =
"you\@slotmachine.com"; administrative email address
- $subject = "YOU
WON!"; subject of
email sent to winner
- $cookieblock = "perm"; # temporary
or permanent block READ
BELOW
OPTIONAL AREAS
- $img[#] =
"0.jpg"; name
of imagefile
- $link[#] =
"http://www.yourdomain.com/slots/image0.htm"; URL of site or product this image is for
- $product[#] = "describe product
0"; one line
description of this product
You only have to setup the REQUIRED
configuration area but will probably want to also customize the OPTIONAL areas.
The cookie block variable should be left to
"perm". This assures that only one ACTUAL spin is allowed per player.
If you set it to "temp" then they can retry everytime they quit their
browser.