in reply to (crazyinsomniac) Re: Critique my First Script for me?
in thread Critique my First Script for me?

The %FORM was contributed by Ovid during my search engine research, the use CGI qw/:standard/; is left over from that, I thought it was invoking CGI.
I will make a point of rereading some of my CGI books now that my code knowledge is growing, I was reading them first when I found I needed to learn Perl to make any sense of them.

I don't understand several of your questions and this will make them excellent points on which I may build knowledge. Thanks again crazyinsomniac!

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Re: Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: Critique my First Script for me?
by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 22, 2001 at 02:58 UTC
    the use CGI qw/:standard/; is left over from that, I thought it was invoking CGI.

    use CGI; is all you need if you are using the OO interface (that's when you do my $q = CGI->new;). The 'qw/:standard/' part imports function names so that you don't need the $q variable and lets you, e.g., say 'param($field)' instead of '$q->param($field)', which makes it a little more of a hassle, but I don't like to import anything I don't have to, and sometimes you might need to create more than one CGI object, and so in that case the OO way is the only way to go.

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      sometimes you might need to create more than one CGI object

      I like and use the OO interface too, and I've heard the above statement before... Have you ever actually needed to create more than one CGI object? I don't believe I've *ever* seen anything like: 

      my $q1 = CGI->new;
my $q2 = CGI->new;

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      Have you?

      -Blake

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        Have you?

        I've seen it, and used it. Usually as a way to have one CGI object to set some parameters on (and retain the rest) so that I can print out various query strings for URL's (e.g., when you want page 1, page 2, etc., type links from a database query), and one CGI object to retain all of the original parameteters.

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