Today I’m doing search for a ready to go nice and small FAQ section script. I believe you all know FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions site section (Pronounced as separate letters, or as "fak").
First request at google gave me few websites, with five and more FAQ scripts on each website, ready for download and install. My first choice was first script in the list called - FAQ Thingee 1.0.
FAQ Thingee 1.0
As many of sites had link and info on this script I thought I’m not wasting my time… What a waste of time. There is readme.txt included, and it seems that installation instruction is described well. It seems that autor is out of this planet at all. While some steps are described very well, others are skipped at all. First problem I got was includes. No mater that I’ve read readme.txt carefully and did as described - added changed to config file, it gave me include errors. I’ve looked thru code and found that scripts actually don’t care about changes I made, because include path in hard coded. I had to fix this and make it use config file variables. Next problem was authentication - it won’t let me in even I had as simple as possible admin/admin login/password. Here problem was in variables - I’ve changed $PHP_AUTH_USER to $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']. Ok now it’s like we in…. nowhere… because all I got was white clean page just like about:blank! I was disappointed, as I was messing with this script some time and my results where clean, white, invisible. I’ve renamed admin.inc to admin.php and finally got that "form to add category", which author mentioned in his readme.txt. I’ve tried to add a category, and I can’t. Script was not working again. I’ve gave up on this one here. It’s all seems easy while you read it, but it took my two hours of debugging to get here. FAQ Thingee 1.0 - WHAT A WASTE OF TIME. IMHO.
Well, I’ve tried another one and found that the FAQ section is so simple itself, that I’s easier to write my own few lines of code, and do it exactly the way I want it to be. Free scripts you can find on the web often are insecure, so you may pay more by solving appeared security issue than you cut on using existing free code. Well, may be I just like coding… happy coding ;-).
P.S. If you need to code something I can do that - PHP, ASP, JS, CSS, DHTML, MSAccess, MySQL and some more scarry words! LOL! See? I like coding, even I mostly do management work! Contact me by blog contact form.
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