Scripts for AVS and Free Sites?

ecchi · 2005-03-30, 07:10 AM

No my comments were not aimed at "Content God" but at the use of scripts in general. And sorry if my comments pissed on your salespitch, I had not realised anyone was pushing their own scripts, if I had I would have chosen my words more carefully.

If you don't know how to write Perl then yes, you do have to buy other people's scripts, and please don't take my post to be aimed at any particular script mentioned in this thread, or anywhere else. However if you do use "off the peg" scripts take careful note of what Dravyk says about security ("Change passwords in configs..................a five year old can figure out the avowed location and put in "admin" and "test" or whatever!"). However do not assume that doing this makes you 100% safe, it does not, it just makes you safer.

But that said, if you are serious about making money in this business I strongly urge you to learn Perl. Not only is it safer, it also means you can write the scripts exactly the way you want them, and it is often cheaper (I have several scripts I wrote in 3 or 4 hours that I would have had to work several days to earn enough to pay for a commercial version). Plus you get into the habit of looking at every job you do and thinking "can I write a script to do this that will save me time". I literally could not do everything in a day that I currently do in a day if Perl did not do a lot of the repetitive work for me. And a lot of the jobs it does are so "me specific" that I don't think there are commercial scripts that would help.

2005-03-30, 07:10 AM	#17
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	No my comments were not aimed at "Content God" but at the use of scripts in general. And sorry if my comments pissed on your salespitch, I had not realised anyone was pushing their own scripts, if I had I would have chosen my words more carefully. If you don't know how to write Perl then yes, you do have to buy other people's scripts, and please don't take my post to be aimed at any particular script mentioned in this thread, or anywhere else. However if you do use "off the peg" scripts take careful note of what Dravyk says about security ("Change passwords in configs..................a five year old can figure out the avowed location and put in "admin" and "test" or whatever!"). However do not assume that doing this makes you 100% safe, it does not, it just makes you safer. But that said, if you are serious about making money in this business I strongly urge you to learn Perl. Not only is it safer, it also means you can write the scripts exactly the way you want them, and it is often cheaper (I have several scripts I wrote in 3 or 4 hours that I would have had to work several days to earn enough to pay for a commercial version). Plus you get into the habit of looking at every job you do and thinking "can I write a script to do this that will save me time". I literally could not do everything in a day that I currently do in a day if Perl did not do a lot of the repetitive work for me. And a lot of the jobs it does are so "me specific" that I don't think there are commercial scripts that would help.