Re: Making webpages from a single CGI

The most obvious advice i can give is to use the glorious perl CGI.pm module. This module comes with the standard distribution of perl and should be available on your machine...

To get at your variables, try something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

# Loads the CGI Module
use CGI;

# creates a new CGI object
my $page = new CGI;

# This will print a standard HTML header
print $page->header;

# Grab a named CGI parameter
# CGI::pm automatically figures out
# if it's sent by GET or POST

my $value = $page->param('node');

# Then:

print "<html><head><title>node is $value</title></head>\n";
print "<body> Hi, you are on the $value node!</body></html>\n";
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There are many more features to this great module. Learn about this before you do any other CGI programming.

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Re: Re: Making webpages from a single CGI by Chris2323 (Initiate) on Oct 04, 2001 at 02:55 UTC
ooops, line breaks would be nice	[reply]