CGI.PM related questions.

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I just have a few basic questions about CGI. say I have a script that is like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Title Page</TITLE></HEAD>\n";
print "<CENTER><FONT SIZE=+7>Some text here</FONT></CENTER></HTML>\n";
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now, I want to use CGI.pm, so I say;

!#/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;

$q = new CGI;

print $q->header;
print $q->start_html("Title Page");
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now, if all the above is correct, how do I convert the CENTER and FONT tags?

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(jcwren) Re: CGI.PM related questions. by jcwren (Prior) on Jun 13, 2000 at 03:08 UTC
Somthing like this: `use strict; use CGI; { my $p = new CGI; print $p->header; print $p->start_html ("Title Page"); print $p->p (center ($p->font ({-size=>'+7'}, "This is a test" +))); print $p->end_html; }` [download] would give you this: `Content-Type: text/html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Title Page</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><CENTER><FONT SIZE="+7">This is a test</FONT></CENTER></P> </BODY> </HTML>` [download] (I reformatted the HTML to make it more readable. CGI.pm usually runs stuff together) It takes a little reading, but 'perldoc CGI' has some pretty good information. There's an excellent tutorial written by Lincoln Stein, that someone has a link to, but I don't know where it is. Anyone? --Chris	[reply] [d/l] [select]
RE: Re: CGI.PM related questions. by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 13, 2000 at 04:02 UTC
jcwren said something like: I reformatted the HTML to make it more readable. Have you seen `CGI::Pretty`? Just say `use CGI::Pretty blah blah` in place of `use CGI blah blah`. You get newlines and indented output. Cool. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
(jcwren) RE: RE: Re: CGI.PM related questions. by jcwren (Prior) on Jun 13, 2000 at 04:27 UTC
Per the amazing Randal L. Schwartz, change the line`use CGI;`to`use CGI::Pretty qw (:all);`and you'll get pretty printing. CGI::Pretty is located here, via the CPAN search. --Chris	[reply] [d/l] [select]
RE: Re: CGI.PM related questions. by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 13, 2000 at 03:25 UTC
Lincoln has copious documentation on his home page.	[reply]
RE: Re: CGI.PM related questions. by Anonymous Monk on Jun 14, 2000 at 11:48 UTC
The recommended test CGI script generates the following error: Status: 302 Found Location: http://cgi2.tripod.com/bin/error?error=Your%20script%20produced%20this%20error%3A%20Unable%20to%20create%20sub%20named%20%22%2AMember%3A%3Acenter%22%20at%20.%2Fhello.pl%20line%2022.%0A URI: http://cgi2.tripod.com/bin/error?error=Your%20script%20produced%20this%20error%3A%20Unable%20to%20create%20sub%20named%20%22%2AMember%3A%3Acenter%22%20at%20.%2Fhello.pl%20line%2022.%0A Content-type: text/html Can anyone tell me what the problem is?	[reply]
RE: Re: CGI.PM related questions. by Anonymous Monk on Jun 14, 2000 at 15:36 UTC
The recommended test CGI script generates the following error: Status: 302 Found Location: http://cgi2.tripod.com/bin/error?error=Your%20script%20produced%20this%20error%3A%20Unable%20to%20create%20sub%20named%20%22%2AMember%3A%3Acenter%22%20at%20.%2Fhello.pl%20line%2022.%0A URI: http://cgi2.tripod.com/bin/error?error=Your%20script%20produced%20this%20error%3A%20Unable%20to%20create%20sub%20named%20%22%2AMember%3A%3Acenter%22%20at%20.%2Fhello.pl%20line%2022.%0A Content-type: text/html Can anyone tell me what the problem is?	[reply]


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