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4/19/2006 6:54 PM
 
Beth Vest

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I would like to implement a simple whois lookup on my site using a form that would be on most pages. When you fill in the form and click go, it would go to the whois server and return the results to another page in the main content area. The form is in a table of it's own and part of the skin much like the serach skin object.

Dnn search does this, but I would need to get results from an outside server. The whois tool I have now works great on the DNN site, but it is all on one page. I want my box to be on the whole site. Anyone have any ideas? Other than this issue, I am pretty handy in customizing skins and would be glad to lend a hand to anyone who can help me with this and needs full customization of a skin. Will work for whois.

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4/20/2006 7:53 AM
 
cathal connolly


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Beth, the easiest option would be to wrap the functionality into a skinobject, that posted to a known aspx page (e.g. whois.aspx), and add the new skinobject token (e.g. [WHOIS]) to your skin - see "DotNetNuke Skinning.pdf" in the documentation download for help with this. Alternatively, you could set a module to appear on all pages.

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4/20/2006 6:35 PM
 
Beth Vest

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Thanks Cathal,

I am looking at exactly that. I have been trying to get an angle on this for days. I absolutly didn't  think of making a skin object. Hopefully, I can get this up and running in the next day or two. I hardly ever look at the skinning docs since I figured out how utterly easy it is to customize DNN. Just about any design can be made into a DNN site.

Beth V.
 
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4/20/2006 6:55 PM
 
cathal connolly


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Beth, one thing to be aware of is that to access whois records, you need to use either system.net.sockets,webservices or screen scraping. Both techniques cannot be used by websites running in medium trust code access security, which a lot of shared hosting providers default to. If you're hosting on your own servers/on an intranet, then this shouldn't be a problem (either run in full trust, or see the "DotNetNuke Code Access Security.pdf" doc in the documentation download for further detail on how to work around the limitations of medium trust), but if you're on shared hosting it would be worth checking with your ISP before you spend the time developing your new skinobject.

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4/21/2006 11:48 AM
 
Beth Vest

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Actually, I have a whois running already on one page. It is ASP based, It contains a form, and a lableID below to where the data is returned. I have all this on one whois.aspx page that is sitting in an iframe. It works great. It offers a selection of whois servers, with netsol being the first choice. I can remove all those and use just one. I am going to make that a hidden form element and remove the choices. I think that should work.

The thing is, it isn't very pretty. I want to take that form, put it in the skin in a place that is on all pages. You fill out the blank in hit go, and have the results returned to another page. Since I already have a whois that works, I am trying to figure out a way to just seperate the pieces, basically. I might have to experiement.

I was looking at the skinobject method, I didn't see what I needed in the skinning documents. I will have to actually create a new skinobject for this, I  think.
 
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