 

  Matrix' Meta Tag Generator

 AUTHOR: David Powell
 http://www.matrixvault.com/cgi/
 Copyright 1999, David Powell and "The Matrix Vault"
 A Matrix Vault Production.
 Tested and run on a UNIX system with PERL 5
 This script is an original script by David Powell. 
 You may use it free of charge, if you keep this header intact, 
 along with any other copyright notices found in the resulting 
 HTML output or text files generated by this script. 


  Description: Makes the neccessary metatags for a web page. The user inputs his/her information about the
website, and this script assembles it in the correct format, and spits it out to the screen then e-mails a copy
of the tags to the user.

  Features:
	Creates meta tags from the user
	Customizeable HTML template
	Prints tags on HTML screen
	Emails a copy of the tags to the user

  Install:

	Change the first line of the script to your perl location.
	Edit the variables to match your system:

		$sendmail = "/usr/lib/sendmail";
		The UNIX path of your mail server.

		$email_results = "0";
		Turn e-mailing the tags on/off      1 = on  anything else = off
		If on, you must have the email address posted as 'email'

		$webmaster_email = "matrix\@inu.net";
		Your E-mail Address. Leave the \ before the @.

		$email_title = "Your Meta Tags";
		The Subject of the results e-mail message


Extra Files Needed:

	HTML_template.html (included)
		This is the HTML results template. 
		Make this page to look just like the rest of your site's design and layout.
		Use the tag <!--INSERT--> to insert the tag results.
	
	thankyou.txt
		The text of the email message that will be sent to the user. The script will automatically
		insert the tags into the message at the bottom of your thank-you message.
	
	form_html.html
		This page contains the form that you will need to send the information to tag_creator.
		You do NOT have to name it form_html.html.  Just whatever you wish to call it is OK. 
		I used it as my index for the tag creator on ResourceList.com
		Change the post tag to reflect the location of tag_creator on your server:
		<form action="http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/tag_creator.cgi" method="POST">
		All form inputs in form_html.html are absolutely neccessary.
		Remove one, and the program will error out.


Extra Files Created:

	email.log
		A list of email addresses, site name, owner and the time each tag was made. 


UPLOAD

	Upload it all to your cgi-bin via ASCII mode,  and chmod tag_creator to 755. 
	Run it by calling up form_html.html or whatever you named the file from your browser.
	Test it by filling out the information and press "Create Tags".  Start de-bugging.


ERRORS

	The script generates its own error message if it cannot access the log or thanks.txt or if form information
	is left blank.

	If you get an internal server error, check all variables, and chmod it to 755 again and see if that helps.
	For more information on errors, goto Matrix's CGI vault: http://www.matrixvault.com/cgi

