FAQ Manager
Note: This is an older version of FAQ. To get the latest version
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As the header says, this tool is a FAQ Manager. As usual implemented
as Perl/CGI-BIN...
There is almost nothing to explain here. You probably have seen many
FAQs on the Internet, Some of them generated by hand, other automatically
converted from different text formats. This tool allows you to start a
fresh FAQ from scratch and you will be able to add/modify/move/delete the
question<->answer pairs in one touch.
Here is a shapshot of the Tool at work. It's
only a snapshot so, you will be not able to perform nothing here, you will
have to install it on your server first. And Here the
resulting FAQ.The html might look very simple and you will be able
to create fancier ones if you will want...
How it works:
- You create a template HTML file for your FAQ (Just pick the template
in the package and modify it).
- Open this template file in your favorite browser.
- Follow the link at the bottom of the page (you will have to point it
to the faq_manager.pl URL (place where your copy of faq_manager.pl resides
on the server). And you will get a form as you have seen in the snapshot.
- From now on script will work on the temperary copy of your file so
if you break something and someone uses the FAQ file you edit , she will
never notice a thing.
- Now you can add a new question/answer, modify them , move their locations
(e.g you want a last question to become first one), delete them. Any moment
you can press a preview button to see how you modified FAQ will look in
your browser when saved. If you do a mistake you can always go back by
performing 'Undo' (Press 'Back' button doesn't always work ) and then redo
by pressing 'Redo'.
- It's important to note that faq_manager never overwrites the original
file till you press 'Save', thus allowing you to apply a lot of changes
to the faq while users can keep on using the previous version of the document
Since there are many FAQ alike actions to perform (link manager, menu
managers and soon) I'm working now to generalize this tool so it will solve
any kind of these tasks. So stay tuned...
You will find the complete documentation in the README file inside the
package
What you need:
- Perl5
- CGI.pm
- JavaScript enabled browser (yes it uses js a bit)
Last Revision Date: 01/20/98
Current version: 1.01
Download faq_manager.zip or
faq_manager.tar.gz
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Related tools:
- Another known to me FAQ Managers: Faq-O-Matic
- by Jon Howell.
- Q-HTML at http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/q-html.html
- a tool for managing FAQs (converting them from text to HTML and auto-splitting
them into seperate pages, one per topic)