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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7.8. Form Widget Methods
The here document, though handy, may not be the best way to build every HTML page. CGI.pm provides several other methods to create widgets, including:
start_form()— start tag for the form
textfield()— tag for a text widget
textarea()— tag for a text area
radio_group()— tags for a radio button group
checkbox()— tag for a check box
popup_menu()— tag for a pop-up menu
scrolling_list()— tags for a scrolling list box
submit()— tag for a submit button
reset()— tag for a reset button
end_form()— </FORM>
The following example, /var/www/cgi-bin/widgets3.cgi, uses these methods and produces the same form shown in Figure 7.12. You can find its code at http://localhost/cgi/widgets3.cgi or www.opensourcewebbook.com/cgi/widgets3.cgi ...
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