December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
9h 40m
English
book
Open Source Web Development with LAMP: Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP
by James Lee, Brent Ware
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7.11. Project—CGI/MySQL/DBI
Now we have all the necessary tools to do what we came here to do: hook DBI into CGI programs. We’ll create a CGI program that displays the current contents of the age_information table like that created in Chapter 5. It also presents the user with a form to fill out, and if the user submits the form, the data submitted is added to the database table.
The program is in the file /var/www/cgi-bin/age.cgi. The entire contents can be found at either http://localhost/mysql/age.cgi or www.opensourcewebbook.com/mysql/age.cgi.
This program generates a page that has the look and feel of our web site, so it builds a bunch of HTML code. We put this code into two functions, top_html() and bottom_html(), to build the HTML for ...
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