FAQ Manager

FAQ Manager is now running as a sourceforge project, you can find the it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/faqmanager/.

As the header says, this tool is a FAQ Manager. As usual implemented as Perl/CGI-BIN... FAQ == Fequenlty Asked Questions (and answers)

Flash: 3/31/98 - A new completely rewritten version of FAQ Manager 2.0 has been released . A lot of new features and capabilities has been added.

Current version: 2.04 - 08/19/99

I wouldn't say a lot of words here, you are invited to read a FAQ on FAQ Manager written by FAQ Manager itself :) It's all there!

After you read the FAQ, you want to see some snapshots. So here they are:

What you need:

Perl5
CGI.pm
Storable.pm
DirHandle.pm
JavaScript enabled browser (yes it uses js a bit)

Last Revision Date: 08/19/99

Current version: 2.04

Changes log:

2.04 - JavaScript bugs were fixed

2.03 - untaint was added in parse-lib.pl, added js checking of the required fields
2.02 - little js bug fix (added ";" to all data lines in js)
2.02 - now each entry is dated and signed by the person who edited the item
2.01 - 'new line' bug fix
2.00 - complete rewrite
1.01 - a few minor bugs fixed
1.00 - a first version

Other notes:
01.25.99 - William Nelson reported me a js bug - It's fixed now

Download faq_manager.tar.gz (Press Shift + Left Mouse to save tar.gz)

If you still want the previous version 1.01 which is work only with one subgroup but a bit lighter and has a completely different GUI you can get it here

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 separate pages, one per topic)