Hyperlinks within .cgi scripts

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Re: Hyperlinks within .cgi scripts by fraterm (Scribe) on Nov 20, 2004 at 04:38 UTC
What you most likely need to do is add an `<a href="http://server/selectionpage.html">Anchor</a>` [download] to the output of the script... which is viewable in a browser right? Check the CGI.pm authors website use your magical find feature to find the term "`anchor link`", or the perldoc in question for the methods for making the tag... though if you just `print "<a>whatsit</a>";` it might just work... you'll most likely need to escape stuff though that might confuse perl while it parses your poo. Arrr, alas I be, Initiat-eee-d.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Hyperlinks within .cgi scripts by rev_1318 (Chaplain) on Nov 20, 2004 at 19:58 UTC
if you use CGI.pm: `print a({href => "/index.html"}, "Return to Selection page")` [download] See perldoc CGI (section 'CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:') for more on this. Paul	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Hyperlinks within .cgi scripts by WebDragon (Initiate) on Nov 21, 2004 at 07:08 UTC
I tend to prefer the function-oriented interface of CGI.pm, even with the extra overhead, but YMMV. `use CGI qw/:standard/;` [download] Note that it's fairly easy to both concatenate with commas, and to nest, so that it looks very close to actual html. `:-)` `print p({-class=>"highlight"}, "If you need to return to the selection page, you can ", a({-href=>"/index.htm", -class=>"backlink"}, "click here"), "to go back." );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]