Launching a Script from within a Webpage

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

Hi guys,

I have had to use perl in order to develop a solution to a problem. Please forgive me if I am writing to basic but I have only been using Perl for a couple of weeks, and the tutorials I have seen have been unable to help me.

My problem is that my script chessy.pl currently only runs on unix manually, i type in ./chessy.pl 1 1 50 (where 1 1 50 are three seperate inputs to the script), now the script works and based on the 3 inputs the correct data is collected from a text file and output to another with just the results. I would like to run this script via a web browser, I have had a cgi-bin created and is accessbile via a webbrowser.

What i would like is a simple html form with 3 text boxes and a submit button, when i enter the data to the text files and press submit the script runs with the data provided.

In my actual script i have 3 parameters to hold the input data:

if($#ARGV == 2) {
$input1 = $ARGV[0];
$input2 = $ARGV[1];
$input3 = $ARGV[2];
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for the rest of the script it refers to these 3 parameters, so can anyone provide me a solution on how to run this script via a webpage rather than getting the script to read the parameters from the command line when the script is run.

Many thanks in advance

Chessy

update (broquaint): added formatting + title change (was Help a Perl Newbie)

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Re: Help a Perl Newbie by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Nov 28, 2002 at 01:52 UTC
Take a look at the CGI module on CPAN, and specifically the `param()` function. It will allow you to provide information via a web form that you can then use in your script. _______________ DamnDirtyApe Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. --Friedrich Nietzsche	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Help a Perl Newbie by grantm (Parson) on Nov 28, 2002 at 04:04 UTC
For a start, the form page can just be a static HTML file (not in cgi-bin) that has a form tag like this: `<form action="/cgi-bin/yourscript.pl" method="GET">` [download] Later on, you might want to generate the form from the script (or you might not).	[reply] [d/l]