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Perl for Web Site Management
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Perl for Web Site Management

by John Callender
October 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
528 pages
15h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Invoking CGI.pm

After the configuration section of the script comes the following line:

use CGI qw(:standard);

This is where you work the CGI.pm magic. In effect, what you are doing with this line is adding a whole bunch of prewritten Perl code to your script. That code arrives in the form of some new functions that your script now has access to for doing various CGI-related things. As I mentioned earlier, I’m not going to explain that process in detail here. In a few minutes, though, you’ll see how easy this makes it to process the submitted form elements received by the script.

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