FORM processing .cgi script - can someone check this?

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I have a FORM with allows user to input their name and then user clicks submit which this goes to my .cgi script. Can someone check this .cgi script as the results are not being displayed as expected.

My post_it.cgi:

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 #!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe
 
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
 
@values = split(/&/,$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});

foreach $i(@values) {

    ($varname, $mydata)=split(/=/,$i); 

    print "$varname = $mydata\n";

}
 
print "<html><head><title>FORM OUTPUT</title></head><body>";

print "<h2>Results from FORM post</h2>\n";
 
foreach $key (keys(%FORM)) {

    print "$key = $FORM{$key}<br>";

}
 
print "</body></html>";

My .html document:

[HTML]<html><head><title>Post.html</title></head>
<body>

<form action="/cgi-bin/post_it.cgi" method="GET">
<pre>
Your Name: <input type="text" name="name">
</pre>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

</body>
</html>[/HTML]

Sep 13 '07 #1

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Kelicula

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For one the split function returns an array, not scalar values.
You have never declared the %FORM hash before you try to populate it.

Also you may need to escape the equal sign in your split function line 7.

Like this:

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($varname, $mydata)=split(/\=/,$i);

But overall I would abandon the whole concept, and use the CGI module which allows you to easily access the input from a form.

Like this:

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 use CGI qw(:standard);
 
$name = param('name');

Now the variable name will equal whatever the user typed in the "name" input.

In fact, no matter how many inputs there are in the html page you can access them like that.
Let's say there are three: name, age, hometown

html:

[HTML]<html><head><title>The form</title></head>
<body>

<form action="thescript.pl" method="GET">

<input name="name" type="text" />
<input name="age" type="text" />
<input name="home" type="text" />

<input type="submit" value="Enter" />
</form>
</body>
</html>[/HTML]

Now in your script, you could do these:

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 use CGI qw(:standard);
 
$name = param('name');

$age = param('age');

$home = param('home');
 
print "Welcome ".$name." from ".$home." I see you are \n".$age;
 
# Or ....
 
@anArray = ($name, $age, $home);
 
print "@anArray";
 
# or whatever...

Hope it helps...

Sep 13 '07 #2

patelxxx

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thank you for that works well, use cgi makes life easy.

Sep 14 '07 #3

KevinADC

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Expert 2GB

For one the split function returns an array, not scalar values.

arrays are lists of strings/scalars so using the split() function to return a list of scalars is perfectly acceptable and quite common:

($varname, $mydata)=split(/=/,$i);

like most things in perl, context is important. split() can return a value in list or scalar context. List context would return an array or a list of scalars, scalar context returns how many fields are found but also populates the system array @_.

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 my $foo = 'this is a test';

$n = split(/ /,$foo);

print $n,"\n";

print "$_\n" for @_;

But you should not make a habit (or even an occasional use) out of writing perl code like this. You should always return the values of split() to an array or list so as not to clobber the system array.

Sep 14 '07 #4

Kelicula

176

Expert 100+

arrays are lists of strings/scalars so using the split() function to return a list of scalars is perfectly acceptable and quite common:

($varname, $mydata)=split(/=/,$i);

like most things in perl, context is important. split() can return a value in list or scalar context. List context would return an array or a list of scalars, scalar context returns how many fields are found but also populates the system array @_.

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my $foo = 'this is a test';

$n = split(/ /,$foo);

print $n,"\n";

print "$_\n" for @_;

But you should not make a habit (or even an occasional use) out of writing perl code like this. You should always return the values of split() to an array or list so as not to clobber the system array.

I was not aware of that. Thanks!

Sep 14 '07 #5

KevinADC

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Expert 2GB

I was not aware of that. Thanks!

You can familiarize yourself with the builtin perl functions:

http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions.html

all the documentation also comes with perl so if you have perl installed locally you can read it on your local PC. If you have activestate it's all well formatted as html and readable in your browser. If you have Linux or other it is still included but you may have to read it directly from the man pages:

perldoc sort

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