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sean
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 Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: Please Read and HELP! |
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Hey all,
I'm pretty new to this so bear with me...
How can i retrieve data from a form with CGI? For example, someone puts in the name, then press submit - how do i get the next page to say "Welcome (name)!"
Any help would be appreciated :)
Sean \m/ |
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nquin321
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sean
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: Ummmm |
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Hey thanks, but i know there is a way to do it with CGI - and i'm learning CGI, so i would like to do it with that....
Thanks anyway. |
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aprelium
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| Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Please Read and HELP! |
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sean,
Here is an example in Perl. Install Perl as described in http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/perl.html .
Save this HTML code file as hello.html:
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<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM ACTION = "hello.pl" METHOD ="GET">
What's your name: <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" SIZE="20" VALUE="Enter your Name"><BR>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE ="click here">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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Then save this Perl code as hello.pl:
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use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
# set an appropriate From: address
$yourname = $query->param('name');
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<"EOF";
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>Hello $yourname</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
EOF
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Put both files in your htdocs/ directory and browse http://yousite/hello.html .
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sean
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject: Hey, thanks for that |
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Thanks for that Aprelium. It helped a lot. I also found a new way to do it, at the top of my pages i put:
require "cgi-lib.pl";
&ReadParse(*input);
$uname= $input{'name'};
and then in my document i put
print "Hello $uname";
and it works fine. :) Thank you |
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