August 2005
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
17h 29m
English
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Web Standards Programmer's Reference: HTML, CSS, JavaScript®, Perl, Python®, and PHP
by Steven M. Schafer
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24.3. A Simple CGI Example
It's important to wrap up this discussion by showing a simple, but working, CGI script. Don't be too concerned about understanding how the script works at this point. Subsequent chapters will explain more about accomplishing CGI using particular languages. Right now, just be conscious of the various sections of the script (outlined by comments) and what those sections contain.
Example: A Perl CGI ScriptThis script outputs a simple XHTML document containing one paragraph that includes a parameter passed via GET. Source #!/usr/bin/perl # Use CGI methods to get parameters use CGI; my $cgi = CGI->new(); my %params = $cgi->Vars; # Print document header print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<HTML;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>CGI Example</title>
</head>
<body>
HTML
# Print "Hello name" where name is from GET data
print "Hello ", $cgi->{'name'}[0], "</p>\n";
# Close document
print "</body>\n</html>";
Output The output of this script is shown in Figure 24-5. Note that the parameter (name), passed via GET, appears on the address line (appended to the URL). Figure 24-5. Figure 24-5
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