Re: Re: Re: Clean URLs and CGI.pm

If you want your CGI called with "search.pl?term" that's fine... all you have to do is $q->param(keywords) in your CGI to access whatever follows the "?" in your URL. If someone calls your script like this "search.pl?field1=term" then the "term" value will appear in $q->param(field1). Just set some if/then's to decide which is which, maybe like this:

if ($q->param(keywords)) {
   $field = $q->param(keywords);
} else {
   $field = $q->param(field1);
}
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Or maybe I don't understand what you want. The 3 main ways of getting data into CGI.pm are via ISINDEX, POST, and GET. Since POST and GET both boil down to key/value pairs they are (to CGI.pm at least) interchangeable. ISINDEX is just a value without a key and is handled in param(keywords). Now why can't you use param again?

Gary Blackburn
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Clean URLs and CGI.pm by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 11, 2001 at 22:21 UTC
Just set some if/then's to decide which is which, Which would be the code I posted originally. Please look at it, I _AM_ using param. I was just saying I can't assume I'm in only one mode. I was really asking if anyone else had done this (I'm not so original as to be the first to do this), and if I was leaving myself open to any security holes and the like, or missing any features of CGI or common idioms to do this.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Clean URLs and CGI.pm by thpfft (Chaplain) on Jun 12, 2001 at 00:25 UTC
Trimbach is politely trying to point out that you are missing both a common idiom and a feature of CGI.pm, namely that a query string without ampersands is treated as an ISINDEX search and the values can be retrieved with the keywords() method, though from my reading it's a list you'll need to join. A small change to your code would make it work. I expect something more elegant could be done with a `[0]`, but not by me :( `$page->param('field',join('',$page->keywords)) unless $page->param('field');` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re:(6) Clean URLs and CGI.pm by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 12, 2001 at 00:50 UTC
Ah, a few things weren't clear. For one, the documentation doesn't mention that keywords() returns false when a non ISINDEX style is used. How about: `$page->param('Field',[$page->keywords()]->[0]) if $page->keywords();` [download]	[reply] [d/l]