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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by "Alexei V. Barantsev" <ba...@kazbek.ispras.ru> on 2000/08/30 08:32:28 UTC

Migrating from CGI.pm to (...?), was Re: CGI.pm problem

Jeff Beard <je...@cyberxape.com> writes:

> There isn't a Vars() function in CGI.pm. If you're looking for the query 
> string try param(). Or if you want to make it a mod_perl program (which is 
> what you would normally discuss on this list) Apache::Request::param().
> 
> --Jeff

There is such a function, Jeff!

Well, could you advice, how to migrate from CGI.pm to Apache or
Apache::Request. The matter is that I have used CGI.pm for HTML
generation primarily and ready to use something another to analyze
request parameters. But I cannot use CGI and e.g Apache::Request
simultaneousely - server hangs. Is there some CGI.pm replacement
intended only for HTML generation in the same manner (which does
nothing with request, especially POST request)?

-- 
ab
ICQ: 3959207

Re: Migrating from CGI.pm to (...?), was Re: CGI.pm problem

Posted by Jeff Beard <je...@cyberxape.com>.
Ah, so there is. I grep'd an older version which didn't since I'd never 
heard of it before.

You use Apache::Request to get query parameters the same way you do with 
CGI.pm's param() method. perldoc Apache::Request.

Did you could try just importing the CGI.pm HTML functions?

Personally, I prefer Template Toolkit for HTML generation. There are other 
templating systems too. Search the archives for discussions on the subject.

Or as Stas suggested, check out the version 3 beta. I've been using it on 
my personal web server for a few months with no problems, though I don't 
use any of the HTML generation features.

--Jeff






At 10:32 AM 8/30/00 +0400, Alexei V. Barantsev wrote:
>Jeff Beard <je...@cyberxape.com> writes:
>
> > There isn't a Vars() function in CGI.pm. If you're looking for the query
> > string try param(). Or if you want to make it a mod_perl program (which is
> > what you would normally discuss on this list) Apache::Request::param().
> >
> > --Jeff
>
>There is such a function, Jeff!
>
>Well, could you advice, how to migrate from CGI.pm to Apache or
>Apache::Request. The matter is that I have used CGI.pm for HTML
>generation primarily and ready to use something another to analyze
>request parameters. But I cannot use CGI and e.g Apache::Request
>simultaneousely - server hangs. Is there some CGI.pm replacement
>intended only for HTML generation in the same manner (which does
>nothing with request, especially POST request)?
>
>--
>ab
>ICQ: 3959207

Jeff Beard
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Re: Migrating from CGI.pm to (...?), was Re: CGI.pm problem

Posted by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>.
On 30 Aug 2000, Alexei V. Barantsev wrote:

> Jeff Beard <je...@cyberxape.com> writes:
> 
> > There isn't a Vars() function in CGI.pm. If you're looking for the query 
> > string try param(). Or if you want to make it a mod_perl program (which is 
> > what you would normally discuss on this list) Apache::Request::param().
> > 
> > --Jeff
> 
> There is such a function, Jeff!
> 
> Well, could you advice, how to migrate from CGI.pm to Apache or
> Apache::Request. The matter is that I have used CGI.pm for HTML
> generation primarily and ready to use something another to analyze
> request parameters. But I cannot use CGI and e.g Apache::Request
> simultaneousely - server hangs. Is there some CGI.pm replacement
> intended only for HTML generation in the same manner (which does
> nothing with request, especially POST request)?

CGI.pm 3.x is supposed to have the args processing and html generation
separated. See:
http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html
http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/CGI.pm-3.01.tar.gz (beta)


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