Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

The guestbook.cgi Script

The guestbook.cgi script computes a page that lists all the registered guests. The example is shown first, and then each part of it is discussed in more detail later. One thing to note right away is that the HTML tags are generated by procedures that hide the details of the HTML syntax. The first lines of the script use the UNIX trick to have tclsh interpret the script. This trick is described on page 26:

Example 3-3 The guestbook.cgi script.

#!/bin/sh # guestbook.cgi # Implement a simple guestbook page. # The set of visitors is kept in a simple database. # The newguest.cgi script will update the database. # \ exec tclsh "$0" ${1+"$@"} # The cgilib.tcl file has helper procedures # The guestbook.data file has the database ...