barrycarlyon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Just looking at how perl monks work,

the address bar says perlmonks.org/?node_id=x

how is x obtained in the perl script?

Say: my $node_id = (value x from address bar)

Yours

Barry Carlyon barry@barrycarlyon.co.uk

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Re: How does perlmonks.org work
by jasonk (Parson) on Apr 18, 2006 at 14:01 UTC

    One possible way:

    use CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $node_id = $cgi->param('node_id');

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      That's basically exactly how it does it.

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