Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

Mon, 25 Sep 2000 00:12:36 -0700 

On 25 Sep 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:

> =head1 TITLE
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> First-Class CGI Support

First-class CGI to me means HTML::Embperl. It include a templating
lanaguage for creating HTML/XML pages and support for session management
via cookies.

Are we talking about having cookes close to the core?  %COOKIE is there
just like %ENV?

$COOKIE{example} = ['Hello, ', 'World!'];

Could perl6 have features for embeded Perl in the tarball? 

Could embedded perl become part of the perl langauge? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -cgi

# Set defaults.

$FDAT{first_name} ||= 'Enter first name';
$FDAT{last_name} ||= 'Enter last name';

if ($FDAT{sent}) {
    # Process form data. 
}



while (<EMBED>) { print }

__EMBED__
<html>
<body>
<form method="POST">
    [+ 'Hello, World!' +]<br>
    <input name="first_name"><br>
    <input name="last_name"><br>
    <input name="sent" type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

In the above the hash FDAT is the form data form the POST. The embedding
language does neat things like add value attributes to inputs based on
the contents of %FDAT.

HTML::Embperl is my favorite embedded perl language, but maybe this
could be pluggable.

Alan Gutierrez

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