{"id":532,"date":"2003-03-15T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2003-03-15T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/15\/3-15-03\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T23:46:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T07:46:26","slug":"snorcomments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/15\/snorcomments\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorcomments"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got Snorcomments<\/strong> running!<\/p>\n

Most of this time, I’ve been trying to get Symbio<\/a> working. But I ran into a huge host of problems. At one point, I tried to apply what I had learned in my Symbio hunt to the slightly simpler Snorcomments and BOOM, it worked right out of the box. Here’s what I learned this summer:<\/p>\n

* Many Perl Tutorials on the web and programmers in general confuse single quotes with double quotes. I had found SEVERAL examples of how to do a “use lib” command and all of them looked like this: use lib ‘\/home\/files’ But as Perldoc<\/a> finally showed me, it SHOULD be: use lib “\/home\/files”<\/strong> Big difference! Moral: buy a good Perl book, forget online tutorials.
\n * Earthlink tech support can be LESS THAN useless. They’ve usually been helpful for me, but in the past few days, the guys I got gave me more incorrect answers than correct ones, right down to the phone extension Noel C. tried to refer me to.
\n * I still don’t know why I can’t run CGI::Cookie<\/strong>;. I need that to run Symbio comments. I’ve gotten as close as being able to tell that it doesn’t like modules with double-colons in it. Maybe that concept came after 5.004_04? Earthlink is running that version and nothing more recent. That’s like 4 years out of date. :-(
\n * The Snorcomments “Generate Code” sample script is missing some quotes. More with the quotes! Geez.