On 21/3/02 22:23, "Michael Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you mean? CGI.pm seems to have a function for generating just about
> every HTML that ever did, does, or will exist. Maybe I'm misunderstanding
> what you mean by "Perl/CGI webpage"...
I'm pretty sure it does, I'm just having problems finding information about
what "you get" when using CGI.pm. I recently found out I could read the
CGI.pm, and it is well documented, so that helps a lot.
Here is an example of the problem I am having:
I've made this mail.form, it is simply a form that you can use to send me an
email. I'm using CGI.pm. I can't figure out how to change the
background-color on the page. This is very trivial, and I'm sure I will find
it explained once I look in CGI.pm. But, another problem is the size of my
textfields. I have a textfield for the message, and I want that to be over
multiple lines, not just one.
Here is my code:
print p("Your message: ", textfield(-NAME => "message", -VALUE => "", -SIZE
=> $ 250)), hr;
This gives me a long inputfield, but only over 1 line. This is ugly, and bad
UI, so I want more lines. I couldn't figure out how to do this by reading
CGI.pm.
>> I have heard writing HTML-code in *.cgi-scripts is considered a no-no, is
>> there any validity to this?
>
> No, it's not. Some people think it's prettier to use CGI.pm, others (like
> me) prefer total control of their HTML output and just use here-docs.
That is nice to know, as sometimes it easier to use plain HTML-tags, when I
can't figure out how to do something with CGI.pm.
One last question, some more code:
my $email = param("email"); # user inputs his email-address.
...
Later in the script:
chomp($name, $email);
$email = ($email =~ s/@/\\@/); # escape the @
I inserted these, but I'm not really sure they are needed.
I get the params normally by:
print p("Your name: ", textfield("name", "name"));
print p("Your email-address: ", textfield("email",
"whatever\@whatever.com"));
Could I leave those 2 steps out?
Again, if this is OT I apologize.
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